Setup GitHub Action with essential files

.github/workflows/update_readme.yml

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+name: "Update README with Random Quote"
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * *"  # Run daily at midnight (UTC)
+  workflow_dispatch:  # Manual trigger
+
+jobs:
+  update-readme:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Set up Docker
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
+
+    - name: Build and run the action
+      uses: ./
+      with:
+        quotes_file: "data/quotes.json"
+        readme_file: "README.md"
+
+    - name: Commit changes
+      run: |
+        git config --global user.name "github-actions"
+        git config --global user.email "github-actions@github.com"
+        git add README.md
+        git commit -m "Update README with random quote" || echo "No changes to commit"
+        git push

Dockerfile

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+FROM python:3.9-slim
+
+# Set working directory
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Copy repository files
+COPY . /app
+
+# Run Python script
+CMD ["python", "update_readme.py"]

README.md

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 # QuoteThisAction
-A GitHub Action that delivers developer quotes.
+A GitHub Action I created to share my favorite quotes on my profile.
+
+## Quote of the Day
+
+<!-- START QUOTE -->
+<!-- END QUOTE -->
+
+## License
+This project is licensed under the terms & conditions (T&Cs) of the MIT license. If you're interested in reading more about it, please take a look at the [LICENSE](./LICENSE) document.

action.yml

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+name: "QuoteThisAction"
+description: "A GitHub Action that delivers developer quotes."
+author: "Govind S Nair"
+
+inputs:
+  quotes_file:
+    description: "Path to the quotes.json file"
+    required: true
+    default: "data/quotes.json"
+  readme_file:
+    description: "Path to the README.md file"
+    required: true
+    default: "README.md"
+
+runs:
+  using: "docker"
+  image: "Dockerfile"
+
+branding:
+  icon: "book"
+  color: "blue"

data/quotes.json

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+[
+    {
+        "text": "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.",
+        "autor": "Donald Knuth"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.",
+        "autor": "Alan Kay"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The most dangerous phrase in the English language is 'We've always done it this way'.",
+        "autor": "Grace Hopper"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.",
+        "autor": "Phil Karlton"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.",
+        "autor": "Bill Gates"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.",
+        "autor": "Bill Gates"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.",
+        "autor": "Larry Wall"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.",
+        "autor": "Cory House"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom.",
+        "autor": "Kent Beck"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.",
+        "autor": "Edsger W. Dijkstra"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.",
+        "autor": "Edsger W. Dijkstra"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.",
+        "autor": "Edsger W. Dijkstra"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "An algorithm must be seen to be believed.",
+        "autor": "Donald Knuth"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.",
+        "autor": "Linus Torvalds"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.",
+        "autor": "John Johnson"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.",
+        "autor": "Grady Booch"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.",
+        "autor": "Grady Booch"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "In God we trust, all others must bring data.",
+        "autor": "W. Edwards Deming"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.",
+        "autor": "W. Edwards Deming"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.",
+        "autor": "Fred Brooks"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.",
+        "autor": "Richard E. Pattis"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.",
+        "autor": "Paul Graham"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.",
+        "autor": "Niklaus Wirth"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.",
+        "autor": "Niklaus Wirth"
+    },
+    {
+        "text": "You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software is not great.",
+        "autor": "Joel Spolsky"
+    }
+]

update_readme.py

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+import json
+import random
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# Paths
+DATA_FILE = Path("data/quotes.json")
+README_FILE = Path("README.md")
+
+def get_random_quote():
+    with open(DATA_FILE, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        quotes = json.load(file)
+    return random.choice(quotes)
+
+def update_readme(quote):
+    with open(README_FILE, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        lines = file.readlines()
+
+    # Look for a placeholder in the README
+    start_marker = "<!-- START QUOTE -->"
+    end_marker = "<!-- END QUOTE -->"
+    start_index = lines.index(f"{start_marker}\n") + 1
+    end_index = lines.index(f"{end_marker}\n")
+
+    # Replace the quote section
+    lines[start_index:end_index] = [
+        "```\n",
+        f"{quote['text']}\n",
+        f"— {quote['autor']}\n",
+        "```\n",
+    ]
+
+    with open(README_FILE, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        file.writelines(lines)
+
+def main():
+    quote = get_random_quote()
+    update_readme(quote)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()