Your personal markdown scribe with template-engine and Git(Hub) & RSS powers 📜

You can run markscribe as a GitHub Action: readme-scribe

Render a template to stdout:

markscribe template.tpl

Render to a file:

markscribe -write /tmp/output.md template.tpl

If you use Brew, you can simply install the package:

brew install muesli/tap/markscribe

Or download a binary from the releases page. Linux (including ARM) binaries are available, as well as Debian and RPM packages.

Alternatively you can also build markscribe from source. Make sure you have a working Go environment (Go 1.16 or higher is required). See the install instructions.

To install markscribe, simply run:

go get github.com/muesli/markscribe

You can find an example template to generate a GitHub profile README under templates/github-profile.tpl. Make sure to fill in (or remove) placeholders, like the RSS-feed or social media URLs.

Rendered it looks a little like my own profile page: https://github.com/muesli

{{range rss "https://domain.tld/feed.xml" 5}}
Title: {{.Title}}
URL: {{.URL}}
Published: {{humanize .PublishedAt}}
{{end}}

{{range recentContributions 10}}
Name: {{.Repo.Name}}
Description: {{.Repo.Description}}
URL: {{.Repo.URL}})
Occurred: {{humanize .OccurredAt}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range recentPullRequests 10}}
Title: {{.Title}}
URL: {{.URL}}
State: {{.State}}
CreatedAt: {{humanize .CreatedAt}}
Repository name: {{.Repo.Name}}
Repository description: {{.Repo.Description}}
Repository URL: {{.Repo.URL}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range recentStars 10}}
Name: {{.Repo.Name}}
Description: {{.Repo.Description}}
URL: {{.Repo.URL}})
Stars: {{.Repo.Stargazers}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range recentRepos 10}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Description: {{.Description}}
URL: {{.URL}})
Stars: {{.Stargazers}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{with repo "muesli" "markscribe"}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Description: {{.Description}}
URL: {{.URL}}
Stars: {{.Stargazers}}
Is Private: {{.IsPrivate}}
Last Git Tag: {{.LastRelease.TagName}}
Last Release: {{humanize .LastRelease.PublishedAt}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range recentForks 10}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Description: {{.Description}}
URL: {{.URL}})
Stars: {{.Stargazers}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range recentReleases 10}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Git Tag: {{.LastRelease.TagName}}
URL: {{.LastRelease.URL}}
Published: {{humanize .LastRelease.PublishedAt}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range gists 10}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Description: {{.Description}}
URL: {{.URL}}
Created: {{humanize .CreatedAt}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user.

{{range followers 5}}
Username: {{.Login}}
Name: {{.Name}}
Avatar: {{.AvatarURL}}
URL: {{.URL}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: read:user.

{{range sponsors 5}}
Username: {{.User.Login}}
Name: {{.User.Name}}
Avatar: {{.User.AvatarURL}}
URL: {{.User.URL}}
Created: {{humanize .CreatedAt}}
{{end}}

This function requires GitHub authentication with the following API scopes: repo:status, public_repo, read:user, read:org.

{{range goodReadsReviews 5}}
- {{.Book.Title}} - {{.Book.Link}} - {{.Rating}} - {{humanize .DateUpdated}}
{{- end}}

This function requires GoodReads API key!

{{range goodReadsCurrentlyReading 5}}
- {{.Book.Title}} - {{.Book.Link}} - {{humanize .DateUpdated}}
{{- end}}

This function requires GoodReads API key!

{{range literalClubCurrentlyReading 5}}
- {{.Title}} - {{.Subtitle}} - {{.Description}} - https://literal.club/_YOUR_USERNAME_/book/{{.Slug}}
  {{- range .Authors }}{{ .Name }}{{ end }}
{{- end}}

This function requires a LITERAL_EMAIL and LITERAL_PASSWORD.

markscribe uses Go's powerful template engine. You can find its documentation here: https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/

markscribe comes with a few handy template helpers:

To format timestamps, call humanize:

{{humanize .Timestamp}}

To reverse the order of a slice, call reverse:

{{reverse (rss "https://domain.tld/feed.xml" 5)}}

In order to access some of GitHub's API, markscribe requires you to provide a valid GitHub token in an environment variable called GITHUB_TOKEN. You can create a new token by going to your profile settings:

Developer settings > Personal access tokens > Generate new token

In order to access some of GoodReads' API, markscribe requires you to provide a valid GoodReads key in an environment variable called GOODREADS_TOKEN. You can create a new token by going here. Then you need to go to your repository and add it, Settings -> Secrets -> New secret. You also need to set your GoodReads user ID in your secrets as GOODREADS_USER_ID.

Q: That's awesome, but can you expose more APIs and data?
A: Of course, just open a new issue and let me know what you'd like to do with markscribe!

Q: That's awesome, but I don't have my own server to run this on. Can you help?
A: Check out readme-scribe, a GitHub Action that runs markscribe for you!