.NET Core tool to check the Azure DevOps API and scrape the GitHub Marketplace for new and updated extensions.
Build and runs with GitHub Actions:
The reason I started with this project is that I always wondered if there could be a way to stay up to date on Azure DevOps extensions or GitHub Actions on the Marketplace: there are many extensions available in it and if you don’t check the marketplace regularly, you can easily miss some gems. Of course, when you encounter a specific problem, you will probably find the extensions when you need them, but I thought this was a fun thing to do.
Searching around did seemed to prove there isn’t a good way to stay up to date on the extensions: there is no RSS feed, bot, or any other option than to regularly check the “Most recent” feed. Since I still am a developer, I thought I could probably make something myself and that this should be a fun thing to do that should not cost to much time to make!
More information can be found in this blogpost.
The basic setup is as follows:
- Run through the Azure DevOps API
- Scrape through the pages on the GitHub Marketplace
- Store all the results as json in Azure Blob storage
- On finding new items, post about it.
The posting to social media part has been disabled, as Twitter is no longer a safe place to post things and I will not promote it anymore. Haven't had time or inclination to set this up on Mastodon yet.
Posting for the GitHub Actions news goes to https://devops-actions.github.io/github-actions-marketplace-news, which can be followed through an RSS feed. The source repository for that blog is here: https://github.com/devops-actions/github-actions-marketplace-news
dotnet restore AzDoExtensionNews/AzDoExtensionNews.sln --locked-mode
dotnet build AzDoExtensionNews/AzDoExtensionNews.slnIf the restore fails with changed dependencies, consider to update the lock files after carefully reviewing the changes:
dotnet restore AzDoExtensionNews/AzDoExtensionNews.sln --use-lock-file --force-evaluateNote for Dependabot PRs: The CI build is configured to automatically handle lock file updates for Dependabot PRs. When Dependabot updates dependencies in Directory.Packages.props, the build process will automatically update the corresponding packages.lock.json files to maintain security while preventing build failures.
dotnet run --project GitHubActionsNews or just hit F5 in Visual Studio / Code.
