This small Shell script will submit links to HackerNews. It is hugely beneficial to automate the task of submission at desired schedules.
To run the script, run the following command:
docker run \
--name submit-hackernews \
--rm \
-e "HACKERNEWS_USERNAME=your_username" \
-e "HACKERNEWS_PASSWORD=your_password" \
ghcr.io/meysam81/submit-hackernews:v1 \
-t "This is the title of submission" \
-u "https://example.com"You can run this in a GitHub Actions workflow. Here is an example:
name: ci
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
title:
description: The title of the link to submit.
required: true
url:
description: The URL of the link to submit.
required: true
verbose:
type: boolean
description: Verbose?
default: true
jobs:
submit-hackernews:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Submit link to Hacker News
uses: meysam81/submit-hackernews@v1
with:
username: ${{ secrets.HACKERNEWS_USERNAME }}
password: ${{ secrets.HACKERNEWS_PASSWORD }}
title: ${{ github.event.inputs.title }}
url: ${{ github.event.inputs.url }}
verbose: ${{ github.event.inputs.verbose }}