Github Actions Dashboard (aka ghashboard)

A tool for making dashboard pages with all the badges from your Github Actions.

Examples

Using via Github Actions

It works really well to as a generator for Github profiles (example: workflow yaml and resulting profile).

You will need to give it a personal access token (PAT) that has rights to all the repos. The standard GITHUB_TOKEN for the action is limited to only its own repo.

This has to be a Personal Access Token (classic). If you are only doing public repos, you can give it just the single repo:public_repo permission. If you are doing private repos, you need to give it the whole repo permission.

I wasn't able to get a fine-grained token to work, though theoretically it should be possible.

Using via CLI

Download the latest version from the Github Releases page

You can use gh auth token to get working access token.

A sample command:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token)
ghashboard --owners=google,spf13

Options

Either as inputs for the Github Action or flags for the CLI.

Notes:

• either owners or repos is required.
• either public or private must be true

Name	Description
archived	include archived repos? (default is false)
empty	include repos with no workflows: useful if you have external badges (default is false)
exclude	workflows to exclude (comma-separated list)
externals	external badges (list) to include. Note that these usually only work with public repos
footer	footer text
forks	include forked repos?
format	output format: csv, markdown or json. json is good for debugging. (default is markdown)
header	header text
inactive	include inactive workflows?
include	workflows to include: others will be skipped (comma-separated list)
log-level	log level: debug, info, warn or error
output	output file to create (or - for stdout)
owners	list of owners (comma-separated list)
private	include private repos?
public	include public repos?
repos	list of repos (comma-separated list)
skip	exclude specific repos (use owner/name)
title	title text
token	Github token: not absolutely required, but you will run into rate-limits without one

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you pronounce it?

It is pronounced (in an upper-crust accent) "gosh-board", not "gashboard" like some sort of horror flick.

Can I have only a specific set of repos?

Yes! Make a list outside of ghashboard in a file (one line per repo) and use --repos @repolist.txt. You can build a list with the gh CLI. For example: gh repo list --json nameWithOwner --jq '.[].nameWithOwner'.

Why is are the badges showing up as broken images for my private repos?

The page needs to be hosted on Github: otherwise the Github doesn't know who you are and that you have the necessary rights.

Developing

See run.sh for how I run it during development.

Contributing

Contributions welcome!

License

MIT

Credits

• GoReleaser - packaging for release
• Steve Francia - viper
• Steve Francia - cobra
• See go.mod for other golang modules used
• jq - JSON manipulation
• cb - clipboard utility