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?
Assuming you are on a Debian/Ubuntu based distro, make sure you have the following packages installed
build-essentialgolangHowever Gotify recomends using docker to build plugins
https://gotify.net/docs/plugin-deploy#with-docker-recommended
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.