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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

make GOTIFY_VERSION="v2.0.5" FILE_SUFFIX="for-gotify-v2.0.5" build

Use the gotify version according to the one installed on your system.
EX: make GOTIFY_VERSION="v2.4.0" FILE_SUFFIX="for-gotify-v2.4.0" build
for the latest release

the on build/you should have some .so files, copy the one for your machine arch to gotify plugins dir data/plugins

where a build for gotify v2.4.0 https://nowtransfer.de/3460c8e86670
copy only the one needed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Copying your file to data/plugins worked! Now just have to wait for next feed to test it out. Thank you again <3

Still don't know how to use command tho :D Sorry, I'm noob. Was trying to enter that command in terminal, but I get:

make: *** No rule to make target 'build'.  Stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Assuming you are on a Debian/Ubuntu based distro, make sure you have the following packages installed build-essential golang

However Gotify recomends using docker to build plugins
https://gotify.net/docs/plugin-deploy#with-docker-recommended

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you! I use Debian 11, installed make, build-essential and golang, and still receiving the same message (feels like I should learn how to use these packages first).

Using your file was working, but unfortunately gotify container just stops after some time. I was reading the docs and I must admit I don't understand a tiny bit :D. Spinning gotify server in docker container was super easy tho. I'd like to get this working, but feels bad for taking your time mate, and I even stole the thread (Sorry OP) lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you a lot, Ill try it out