github-streak

The purpose of github-streak is to monitor a GitHub repository and collect short-term information about contributions, triggering a webhook based on the event.

Use case

Example: you have a pretty active team and you want to gamify the workflow by displaying "Double kill!" message in a connected Slack channel, when somebody makes a double commit, or "RA-A-AMPAGE" on 6 sequential commits.

What is done now

Currently it works only by posting a formatted message about each commit to a given Slack webhook URL as well as multi commits (2x-5x from 'double' to 'RA-A-AMPAGE').

More integrations and event types will come soon.

How to use

NOTE: Usually it's good to have this running on a free Heroku server, or a local Raspberry Pi.

1. Define an environmental variable SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL with an address of your Slack Webhook.
2. Run npm start on a remote always working machine (e.g. Heroku app)
3. Add a webhook to your GitHub repository to post push events to .../webhooks/push endpoint.
4. Flexible configuration is comming, but for now to change event message templates you need to fork a repo and update config.json.

Configuration

Templates are defined in config.json file in events in a following way:

"EVENT_TYPE": "TEMPLATE"

Available message replacements in templates:

1. %an - author name
2. %au - author username
3. %ae - author email
4. %cm - commit message

Example (see config.json):

{
    "multi_timeout": 120000,
    "events": {
        "COMMIT": "%an made a commit: %cm",
        "DOUBLE_COMMIT": "%an got a double commit!",
        "TRIPLE_COMMIT": "%an got a triple commit!"
    }
}

To-do

• think about other use cases :)
• monitor BitBucket or other git repository
• monitor private repositories
• add more event types and replacers:

"FIRST_COMMIT": "%an opened a coding day by pushing his first commit at %cd: %cm",

• moar ...

Contributions

...are always welcome.

Tests can be found in /tests folder and be run by npm test or npm run test:watch to continuously run tests on a file change.

Credits

Igor Kuzmenko