Reading Time to Manifest Action

GitHub Action to calculate reading time of Markdown files in the specified folder and add results to a manifest.json

Usage

- uses: zentered/reading-time-action
  with:
    path: docs

Inputs

Name	Requirement	Default	Description
path	optional	docs	Path where the markdown files and manifest are located

Outputs

{
  "text": "1 min",
  "minutes": 0.475,
  "time": 28500,
  "words": 95
}

Complete Workflow with Commit & Push

This action does not commit/push to your repo. You can use the github-push-action. Here's a complete example:

name: Reading Time

 on:
   push:
     branches:
       - '**'
       - '!main'
     paths:
       - 'docs/**'

 jobs:
   reading-time:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: calculate reading time
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Сalculate reading time
         uses: zentered/[email protected]
       - name: Commit Manifest
         run: |
           git config --local user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
           git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
           git commit docs/manifest.json -m "chore: calculate reading time"
       - name: Push changes
         uses: ad-m/[email protected]
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           branch: ${{ github.ref }}

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

License

See LICENSE.