AnandChowdhary/bookshelf-action

Track your reading using repository issues and generate a README.md and open API automagically.

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⭐ Features

• End-to-end automated workflow using GitHub issues:
  • Create GitHub issues to add the books you’re reading
  • Track your reading progress by adding comments to the issue
  • Close the issue when you’ve completed the book
• Get a README.md summary and JSON API for your reading data
• Uses Google Books API to fetch details like cover and ISBN

Get started

This repository only includes the GitHub Actions required as dependencies. To get started, visit AnandChowdhary/books and use it as a starting point. You can use the Use this template button to create a new repository:

1. Go to AnandChowdhary/books
2. Click on the “Use this template” button or fork the repository
3. Add a book by creating a new issue with the book’s name

First, create a new issue in your repository:

Then, write the name of the book and author as the issue title:

Lastly, press the “Submit new issue” button and you’ll see a comment and labels added automatically:

In your book’s issue, simply enter in plain text the progress. For example, “I’ve reached page 100” or “I’ve completed 24%”, or “I’ve reached page 42/542”. The issue title will be automatically updated to include your reading progress:

When you’ve completed a book, simply close the issue. An automated comment will be added to tell you about your reading time and some new labels will be added.

When creating a new issue for the book, add the label “want to read”.

📖 Example

Simply create issues with names of books, and Bookshelf Action will automatically organize them with labels:

Additionally, a summary of your reading progress is generated in the README.md file:

📄 License

• Code: MIT © Anand Chowdhary
• Books icon by Francielly Costantin Senra from The Noun Project
• Merge icon by Danil Polshin from The Noun Project
• “GitHub” is a trademark of GitHub, Inc.