7 mo. ago • 92%

Get notified on Mastodon for new Github releases

This repository contains code to scan for new releases of configurable github repositories and publish new releases to different Mastodon accounts.

I'm selfhosting several services, mostly based on docker containers. Many of these are managed on Github and publish releases there. What annoys me is that I regularly miss updates.

I'm also quite active on Mastodon so I thought it would be handy to have a bot automatically scanning for new github releases and posting a new toot for every new release.

The bot can be configured to scan multiple different github repositories and publish to different mastodon accounts.

I have set up accounts for:

https://mastodon.social/@navidrome_releases
https://mastodon.social/@vaultwarden_releases
https://mastodon.social/@dockerpihole_releases
https://mastodon.social/@tempo_releases
https://mastodon.social/@unifidocker_releases

You can use the notification feature of Mastodon to get a notification, whenever a new post is published. Just follow an account and hit the little bell icon on its profile page.

Here's the code, if someone is interested in that:

https://codeberg.org/ryan_harg/github-releases-bot

Is this something that you people find useful? Which other services would you like to see covered in that way?

23 comments

Why not just subscribe to the release notifications or use the releases atom feed?

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- Exactly, I don't get the "Mastodon as a poor man's RSS agregator" trend
  
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  I wasn't trying to throw shade here. I was just genuinely curious about OPs motivations for doing this. It's totally reasonable that they could have a use case where this solution makes the most sense.
  
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- I do it that way. Enable email notifications for new tagged releases, something arrives, check changelog, everything fine?
  
  docker-compose pull; docker-compose down; docker-compose up -d
  
  And we are done
  
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  You don’t need to run docker-compose down.
  
  docker-compose pull; docker-compose up -d is enough
  
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  FYI, docker-compose is the legacy version that was deprecated a few years ago and no longer receives updates. docker compose (with a space instead of a hyphen) is what you should be using these days.
  
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  Sure. But when do you do that? I find it useful to have the trigger of a social media post.
  
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- The bot consumes the atom feed of a repository, but I don't use a feed reader. you could also just let Github notify you for new releases. But I don't pay much attention to github notifications either. I'm a lot more likely to notice something like that if it's integrated into my social media consumption.
  
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  That makes sense. Pretty cool, nice work!
  
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- Off the top of my head, boosting, voting, and discussion.
  
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  Yeah, good point!
  
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- I get most of my RSS feeds thru Misskey.io so having downstream activitypub bridges like this, or the bluesky bridge (that ppl are freaking out about for no reason) are still really useful to me
  
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Is there any way to get those notifictions over selfhosted gotify?

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- You can get the rss of new releases with rss, and use rss plugin for Gotify
  https://github.com/solarkennedy/gotify-rss
  https://piraces.dev/short-bits/github-releases-feed-atom/
  
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  Thank you a lot, Ill try it out
  
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  May I ask for some help please. I dont know how to use this command:
  
  $ make GOTIFY_VERSION="v2.0.5" FILE_SUFFIX="for-gotify-v2.0.5" build
  
  Where should I type that? How can I build that plugin?
  
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You could get notified with a PR to update a version with renovate.

(Assuming you have your selfhosting configurations checked into source control, which I realize as I'm typing this that it might not be the norm...)

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- that's a good idea. i have some of my configurations under version control, but mostly on codeberg. not sure how renovate integrates there...
  
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