I’m looking for something like GitHub’s user activity indicator that gathers information from a list of git repositories regardless of where they are hosted (as long as they are public), that I can put on my webpage, kind of as a thing to show what I’m working on at the moment.
Is this a thing that already exists? I’d started writing one a while ago but instead of reviving that it would be great if there’s something that already exists and I can just use :^)
I asked chatgpt to write a go program for this, this looks roughly correct (I have used both libraries before) obviously this won’t be enough for your particular use case. I imagine you can integrate an RSS feed to your site, however if you’re using something like hugo perhaps output it as a csv.
Super low effort but a good start I think:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"strings"
"time"
git "github.com/go-git/go-git/v5"
rss "github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-rss"
)
const (
timeout = 5 // timeout in seconds for the RSS feed generation
)
// Repository represents a git repository with its URL
type Repository struct {
URL string
}
// Repositories is the list of git repositories
var Repositories = []Repository{
{URL: "https://github.com/owner/repo1"},
{URL: "https://github.com/owner/repo2"},
// Add more repositories here
}
// FetchLatestTag fetches the latest tag from a git repository
func FetchLatestTag(repoURL string) (string, string, error) {
// Clone the repository to a temporary directory
dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "repo")
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
_, err = git.PlainClone(dir, true, &git.CloneOptions{
URL: repoURL,
Progress: os.Stdout,
})
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
repo, err := git.PlainOpen(dir)
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
tags, err := repo.Tags()
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
var latestTag string
var latestCommitTime time.Time
err = tags.ForEach(func(ref *plumbing.Reference) error {
tag := ref.Name().Short()
commit, err := repo.CommitObject(ref.Hash())
if err != nil {
return err
}
if commit.Committer.When.After(latestCommitTime) {
latestCommitTime = commit.Committer.When
latestTag = tag
}
return nil
})
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
return latestTag, latestCommitTime.Format(time.RFC1123Z), nil
}
// GenerateRSS generates an RSS feed from the latest tags of the repositories
func GenerateRSS() string {
feed := rss.Feed{
Title: "Latest Tags from Git Repositories",
Link: &rss.Link{Href: "http://example.com/"},
Description: "This feed provides the latest tags from a list of git repositories.",
Created: time.Now(),
}
for _, repo := range Repositories {
tag, date, err := FetchLatestTag(repo.URL)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("Error fetching latest tag for repository %s: %v", repo.URL, err)
continue
}
feed.Items = append(feed.Items, &rss.Item{
Title: fmt.Sprintf("Latest tag for %s: %s", repo.URL, tag),
Link: &rss.Link{Href: repo.URL},
Description: fmt.Sprintf("The latest tag for repository %s is %s, created on %s.", repo.URL, tag, date),
Created: time.Now(),
})
}
var rssFeed strings.Builder
rssFeed.WriteString(xml.Header)
if err := feed.Write(&rssFeed); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Error generating RSS feed: %v", err)
}
return rssFeed.String()
}
func main() {
rssFeed := GenerateRSS()
fmt.Println(rssFeed)
}