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A watcher for contributors to various projects: GraphQL with GitHub Actions

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The repository is self-updated: https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/contributors/blob/master/....

Wow, really cool. I feel like using Github like this could really take off. Free storage and compute and scheduling. I'm definitely going to keep this in mind for any future fun projects--it seems like a scraper is an obvious use case.

Thank you! ;-)

For anyone interested in trying this, you need to set the ENV var `CONTRIBUTORS_TOKEN` with your github API token, then create a README.md with the following sections:

   ### [{project}](https://github.com/{owner}/{project}/)
   
   <!-- contributors-{project} starts -->
   contirbutors will be auto-populated here
   <!-- contributors-{project} ends -->

with the {owner} and {project} replaced, then after running authors.py the README will get auto-populated.

Very very cool.

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