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Workflow file for this run

name: Blog linker
# Adds Datadog blog post links to the further_reading section of the docs pages
# each post references, then opens a draft PR with the result.
#
# The script itself lives in DataDog/websites-images
# (services/webops-site-build/bin/docs-ci/blog_linker.py) and is fetched at run
# time, so this workflow always uses the current version.
on:
schedule:
# Tuesdays at 12:00 UTC (08:00 ET)
- cron: '0 12 * * 2'
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
since:
description: 'Look back this many days for blog posts'
required: false
default: '14'
dry_run:
description: 'Report what would change without opening a PR'
type: boolean
required: false
default: false
permissions:
contents: read
id-token: write
concurrency:
group: blog-linker
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
link:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 20
env:
# Two weeks, against a weekly cron: every post falls in two runs, so a
# dropped or failed run doesn't lose a week. The script skips posts
# already linked, so the second pass is a no-op.
SINCE: ${{ inputs.since || '14' }}
steps:
# Read access to websites-images, where the script lives.
- name: Get token for websites-images
id: sts-scripts
uses: DataDog/dd-octo-sts-action@96a25462dbcb10ebf0bfd6e2ccc917d2ab235b9a # v1.0.4
with:
scope: DataDog/websites-images
policy: documentation.blog-linker
# Write access to this repo, so the branch and PR are created by an
# identity that triggers the normal PR checks (Vale and the rest).
- name: Get token for documentation
id: sts-docs
uses: DataDog/dd-octo-sts-action@96a25462dbcb10ebf0bfd6e2ccc917d2ab235b9a # v1.0.4
with:
scope: DataDog/documentation
policy: documentation.blog-linker-write
- name: Check out documentation
uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
with:
token: ${{ steps.sts-docs.outputs.token }}
- name: Fetch the blog linker script
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.sts-scripts.outputs.token }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
tmp=$(mktemp -d)
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse \
"https://x-access-token:${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/DataDog/websites-images.git" "$tmp"
git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set services/webops-site-build/bin/docs-ci
cp "$tmp/services/webops-site-build/bin/docs-ci/blog_linker.py" ./blog_linker.py
rm -rf "$tmp"
- name: Set up Python
uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
with:
python-version: '3.12'
- name: Install dependencies
run: pip install feedparser requests beautifulsoup4 ruamel.yaml
- name: Run the blog linker
env:
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
args=(--since "$SINCE")
if [ "$DRY_RUN" = "true" ]; then
args+=(--dry-run)
fi
python ./blog_linker.py "${args[@]}" | tee summary.txt
# The script only writes to hugo/content/en. Scoping to that path keeps
# the workflow's own files (blog_linker.py, summary.txt) out of the commit.
- name: Check for changes
id: changes
run: |
if git diff --quiet -- hugo/content/en; then
echo "changed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "No docs pages changed. Nothing to open a PR for."
else
echo "changed=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
git diff --stat -- hugo/content/en
fi
- name: Open a draft PR
if: steps.changes.outputs.changed == 'true' && inputs.dry_run != true
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.sts-docs.outputs.token }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
date_stamp=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d)
branch="blog-linker/weekly-${date_stamp}"
git config user.name "dd-octo-sts[bot]"
git config user.email "200755185+dd-octo-sts[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git checkout -b "$branch"
# Same path scope as the check above: content changes only.
git add -- hugo/content/en
git commit -m "Add blog links to further_reading (week of ${date_stamp})"
git push origin "$branch"
{
echo '### What does this PR do? What is the motivation?'
echo
echo "Adds Datadog blog post links to the \`further_reading\` section of the docs pages"
echo "those posts reference. Opened automatically by the [blog linker workflow][1];"
echo "covers posts from the last ${SINCE} days."
echo
echo '<details><summary>Script output</summary>'
echo
echo '```'
cat summary.txt
echo '```'
echo
echo '</details>'
echo
echo '### Merge readiness'
echo
echo '- [ ] Ready for merge'
echo
echo '### Additional notes'
echo
echo 'Each entry pairs a blog post with a docs page that post links to.'
echo
echo "[1]: https://github.com/DataDog/documentation/blob/master/.github/workflows/blog_linker.yml"
} > pr_body.md
gh pr create \
--draft \
--base master \
--head "$branch" \
--title "Add blog links to further_reading (week of ${date_stamp})" \
--body-file pr_body.md \
--label "WORK IN PROGRESS" \
--reviewer jeff-morgan-dd
- name: Upload summary
if: always()
uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
with:
name: blog-linker-summary
path: summary.txt
if-no-files-found: ignore