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Intermediate 3-4 hours · 2 APIs

Build a GitHub Activity Digest

Get a daily email summary of activity across your GitHub repositories. Track new issues, pull requests, and stars.

APIs Used

G

GitHub API

Fetch repository events and activity

Development
S

SendGrid

Send the digest email

Email

Data Flow

USER Authenticate with GitHub personal access token API Fetch recent repository events via GitHub PROCESS Filter last 24 hours and categorize by type PROCESS Format into HTML email digest API Send digest email via SendGrid
User Action
API Call
Transform
Output

How It Works

1

Authenticate with GitHub API using a personal access token

2

Fetch recent events across your repositories (last 24 hours)

3

Categorize events by type (issues, PRs, stars, forks)

4

Format into an HTML email and send via SendGrid

Code Outline

Pseudocode / JavaScript 
// 1. Fetch GitHub events
const eventsRes = await fetch('https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME/received_events', {
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN' }
});
const events = await eventsRes.json();

// 2. Filter last 24 hours
const yesterday = new Date(Date.now() - 86400000);
const recent = events.filter(e => new Date(e.created_at) > yesterday);

// 3. Categorize events
const issues = recent.filter(e => e.type === 'IssuesEvent');
const prs = recent.filter(e => e.type === 'PullRequestEvent');
const stars = recent.filter(e => e.type === 'WatchEvent');

// 4. Send email digest via SendGrid
const html = `<h2>Daily GitHub Digest</h2>
  <p>New Issues: ${issues.length} | PRs: ${prs.length} | Stars: ${stars.length}</p>`;
await fetch('https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    personalizations: [{ to: [{ email: '[email protected]' }] }],
    from: { email: '[email protected]' },
    subject: 'Your Daily GitHub Digest',
    content: [{ type: 'text/html', value: html }]
  })
});

Recipe Details

Difficulty Intermediate
Time 3-4 hours
APIs Used 2

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