Newest RSS Post

GitHub action

Get the newest post title and link from an RSS feed.

Ideal for when you publish a new post in your blog and you want to get the url to share on social media with another action.

Example usage

name: Deploy page

on:
  push:

jobs:
  # have your job that deploys your page
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy page
        uses: my-repo/page-deployer

  # and then add a job that publishes your deployment to the social platforms      
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # be sure to make it a dependency of the step that deploys the page
    # that way, it has some buffer time after it was deployed
    needs: [deploy]
    steps:
      - name: Fetch Post Data
        # important, add an id to your step
        id: rss
        uses: CodingBull-dev/newest-rss-post-action@main
        with:
          # make sure that the link is an RSS site
          rss: "https://mywebsite.com/feed.xml"
      # now you can spam all your channels
      - name: Publish on LinkedIn
        uses: etcetera/linkedin-publisher
        with:
          message: "My new #post ${{ steps.rss.outputs.title }} can be read in ${{ steps.rss.outputs.url }}"
      - name: Publish on Twitter
        uses: etcetera/twitter-spammer
        with:
          message: "Hey Elon, read my #post ${{ steps.rss.outputs.title }} in ${{ steps.rss.outputs.url }}"
      - name: Get downvoted on reddit
        uses: etcetera/reddit-bots
        with:
          title: "New post: ${{ steps.rss.outputs.title }}"
          link: ${{ steps.rss.outputs.url }}

Inputs

It only needs one input: rss.

This must be an url that points to an rss site. Add the whole url.

Development

npm ci to install dependencies. Build using npm run build and execute the compiled code with node dist/index.js.

There is also a Dockerimage.