Using Gitea/Github actions for triggering Echo

I decided to start using Robb Knight’s Echo tool, to syndicate my blog posts to Mastodon, and trigger Webmentions. I’m not going to go through the configuration of Echo here, the project README has some good instructions for setting it up.

However, I have just started using Gitea Actions for CI on my private Git server, so I’m using a scheduled action to achieve this:

name: Syndicate using echo
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
jobs:
  echo:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 20.x
      - name: Install dependencies 📦
        run: npm ci
      - name: Cache build
        id: cache-data
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: data
          key: cache-data-${{ gitea.run_id }}
          restore-keys: |
            cache-data
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: '1.20'
      - uses: https://gitea.com/actions/go-hashfiles@v0.0.1
        id: get-hash
        with: 
          patterns: |-
            ./data/*
      - name: Init echo
        if: ${{ steps.get-hash.outputs.hash == ''}}
        run: node index.js init
        env:
          MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          MASTODON_URL: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_URL }}
      - name: Run echo
        run: node index.js
        env:
          MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          MASTODON_URL: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_URL }}

This:

• Checks out the code
• Sets up node
• Uses the cache action to persist the data directory between runs
• Uses the go-hashfiles action to calculate a hash of the data directory^[1]
• If the hash is empty, initialise Echo
• Run echo

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1. If using Github Actions, you can remove these steps and just use the hashFiles function ↩︎