Webmentions on a static site with GitHub Actions

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Sebastian his website supports Webmentions. To show these on his website he used a tad of JS to display them underneath each page. Not being 100% happy with that flow, he sought a better way to implement these …

After some tinkering, I came up with an alternative: a cron-based GitHub Action that queries webmention.io for new webmentions. The Action then commits them to my site’s repository, so I can access the data with my static site generator, Hugo.

Clever!

Webmentions on a static site with GitHub Actions →

🔥 Those “GitHub Cron Jobs” once again prove to be really powerful. You can even use them to trigger a Netlify build on a daily basis.

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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