GitHub Actions for Daily News Aggregation

Supporting the trend of content generation with LLMs, this page shows how we’re using GitHub Actions with our Go scripts to create daily translated news in one of our community repositories.

This guide demonstrates setting up custom scripts with GitHub Actions to automate tasks on a schedule.

Embracing the wave of content generation through LLMs since 2023, SakeSaySo leverages Anthropic AI in its news aggregation process. We use GitHub Actions, combined with Go-based tools and scripts that we prefer over Python, to automate such tasks. The configuration below is an example setup, including a cron schedule, showcasing how you can replicate this for your needs.

name: Go Scheduled Newswriter

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 21 * * *'  # Runs at 21:00 UTC (6 AM JST)

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Checkout Current Repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Checkout sakesayso/news Repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: 'sakesayso/news'
        token: ${{ secrets.SAKESAYSO_WRITER_PAT }}
        path: 'news'

    - name: Set up Go
      uses: actions/setup-go@v2
      with:
        go-version: '1.21'

    - name: Run Newswriter A
      env:
        ANTHROPIC_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_TOKEN }}
      run: go run cmd/newswriter/main.go

    - name: Commit and Push Changes
      run: |
        cd news
        git config --global user.name 'sakebot'
        git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
        git add .
        git commit -m "Update from newswriter" || true
        git push

This configuration details the steps from checking out repositories to executing the Go script and pushing updates.