✨ GitHub Sponsors Readme Action ✨

This GitHub Action will automatically add your GitHub Sponsors to your README. It can be configured in multiple ways allowing you to display and breakdown your sponsors by price tier with fallbacks. It also includes templating support so you can display your sponsors how you'd like.

Maintenance of this project is made possible by all the contributors and sponsors. If you'd like to sponsor this project and have your avatar or company logo appear below click here. 💖

Getting Started ✈️

You can include the action in your workflow to trigger on any event that GitHub Actions supports.

Important

You'll need to provide the action with a Personal Access Token (PAT) scoped to read:user and read:org.

Additionally, this action only applies the template within the workspace. You will need to combine it with a deployment action in order to commit it to your project. You can see a full example of this below.

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: 30 15 * * 0-6
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'

      # ⚠️ Note: You can use any deployment step here to automatically push the README
      # changes back to your branch.
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          folder: '.'

You'll also need to the following <!-- sponsors --><!-- sponsors --> in your .md file so the action knows where to place the data.

# Awesome Project

Go you!

## Sponsors

These are our really cool sponsors!

<!-- sponsors --><!-- sponsors -->

Tip

Looking for a more guided walkthrough? Check out the following article for more details on how to set everything up in your project.

Install as a Node Module 📦

If you'd like to use the functionality provided by this action in your own action you can either create a composite action, or you can install it using yarn or npm by running the following commands. It's available on both the npm and GitHub registry.

yarn add @jamesives/github-sponsors-readme-action

npm install @jamesives/github-sponsors-readme-action

It can then be imported into your project like so.

import run from '@jamesives/github-sponsors-readme-action'

run({
  token: process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN
})

Calling the functions directly will require you to pass in an object containing the variables found in the configuration section.

Configuration 📁

The with portion of the workflow must be configured before the action will work. You can add these in the with section found in the examples above. Any secrets must be referenced using the bracket syntax and stored in the GitHub repository's Settings/Secrets menu. You can learn more about setting environment variables with GitHub actions here.

Required Setup

The following options must be configured.

Key	Value Information	Type	Required
token	You must provide the action with a Personal Access Token (PAT) with the read:user and read:org permission scope and store it in the secrets / with menu as a secret. This should be generated from the account or organization that receives sponsorship, and depending on your use case you may need to provide additional scopes. Learn more about creating and using encrypted secrets here.	with	Yes
file	This should point to the file that you're generating, for example README.md or path/to/CREDITS.md. Defaults to README.md if no value is provided.	with	Yes

Optional Choices

Key	Value Information	Type	Required
organization	If you're displaying sponsorship information as or for an organization you should toggle this option to true. You also need to provide the action with an read:org and read:user scoped PAT. Note: The PAT must belong to an owner of the organization.	with	No
minimum	Using this input you can set the minimum sponsorship threshold. For example setting this to 500 will only display sponsors who give of $5 USD and more. By default the action will display all of your sponsors.	with	No
maximum	Using this input you can set the maximum sponsorship threshold. For example setting this to 500 will only display sponsors who give of $5 USD and less. By default the action will display all of your sponsors.	with	No
marker	This allows you to modify the marker comment that is placed in your file. By default this is set to sponsors - <!-- sponsors --> <!-- sponsors -->, if you set this to gold for example you can place <!-- gold --> <!-- gold --> in your file.	with	No
fallback	Allows you to specify a fallback if you have no sponsors. By default nothing is displayed.	with	No
template	Allows you to modify the default template. Please refer to the template section of this README for more information.	with	No
active-only	If set to false, inactive sponsors will be displayed. This can be useful if you want to display all sponsors, regardless of their status. By default this is set to true.	with	No
include-private	If set to true, private sponsors will be displayed in the list, however any identifying information will be redacted. This can be useful if you want to display all sponsors, regardless of their privacy settings.	with	No

Deployment Status

The action will export a step output as sponsorship-status that you can use in your workflow to determine if the task was successful or not. You can find an explanation of each status type below.

Status	Description
success	The success status indicates that the action was able to successfully generate the README.
failed	The failed status indicates that the action encountered an error while trying to generate the README.
skipped	The skipped status indicates that the action could not locate the markers in your .md file.
running	The running status indicates that the action is actively working.

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Modifying the Template 🔧

You can modify the template that gets generated in your file by using the template input. This input allows you to leverage mustache templating to modify what is displayed. The following values are available.

Status	Description
name	The users full name. This can sometimes be null if the user hasn't set one. This can be accessed using {{ name }}
login	The users login, this can be accessed using {{ login }}
url	The users GitHub profile url, this can be accessed using {{ url }}.
avatarUrl	The users avatar url, this can be accessed using {{ avatarUrl }}.
websiteUrl	The users website url. This can sometimes be null if the user hasn't set one, if so this field will fall back to url. This can be accessed using {{ websiteUrl }}.

You're able to use markdown or GitHub approved basic HTML. The default template can be found here.

You can view a full example of this here.

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
          template: '* [{{ name }}]({{ url }}) - {{ login }}'

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          folder: '.'

# Awesome Project

Go you!

## Sponsors

These are our really cool sponsors!

<!-- sponsors --><!-- sponsors -->

---

Separating by Sponsorship Tier ✨

If you'd like to highlight certain users who contribute to a specific sponsorship tier you can do so using a combination of the minimum, maximum and marker inputs. The minimum / maximum inputs equal their dollar contribution in cents.

You can view a full example of this here.

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
          minimum: 500
          maximum: 999
          marker: 'silver'

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
          minimum: 1000
          marker: 'gold'

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          folder: '.'

# Awesome Project

Go you!

## Gold Sponsors

<!-- gold -->
<!-- gold -->

## Silver Sponsors

<!-- silver -->
<!-- silver -->