traffic.yml

name: Traffic counts

# GitHub's traffic API only keeps 14 days, so a "this month" number has to be collected
# daily before it ages out. Counts land on the orphan `traffic-data` branch, which
# shields.io reads as a badge endpoint. The API needs Administration:read, which the
# default GITHUB_TOKEN cannot hold, hence the TRAFFIC_TOKEN secret.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "41 4 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  collect:
    name: Collect and publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
      - name: Check out the data branch
        run: |
          git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
          git config user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
          git fetch origin traffic-data:traffic-data && git worktree add data traffic-data \
            || git worktree add --orphan -b traffic-data data
      - name: Collect counts
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TRAFFIC_TOKEN }}
        run: python3 .github/scripts/traffic.py data
      - name: Publish counts
        working-directory: data
        run: |
          git add -A
          git diff --cached --quiet && exit 0
          git commit -m "Traffic counts for $(date -u +%F)"
          git push origin traffic-data