Day 17: Set one of your pinned cards to your language usage with WakaTime

December 17, 2019

WakaTime is a project that can track metrics of projects you work on or languages you use. With this action, matchai/waka-box you can update a gist that is pinned to your repo page

Example Usage

To update the gist, it needs an API key for WakaTime. As well given you are working outside the repo, the default GITHUB_TOKEN cannot be used and a personal access token needs to be used instead. Then if you copy the ID of the gist (for example gist.github.com/lannonbr/920ada24… would have a gist ID of 920ada24…)

Then put all of these variables and secrets into an example workflow like such:

name: Update gist with WakaTime stats
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "*/10 * * * *"
jobs:
  update-gist:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - name: Update gist
        uses: matchai/waka-box@master
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
          GIST_ID: 968220c97e8da1d047a9a480fa432e54
          WAKATIME_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_API_KEY }}

Once done, if you pin the gist, you now can have this on your main profile: