wordcount.yaml

name: Nightly thesis word count

on:
  schedule:
    # quote due to '*'; cron-input-style string: 55' 23h DD MM day(s)
    - cron: '55 23 * * 1-5'
  # for testing, this lets us run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  # id
  nightly-word-count:
    # name
    name: Nightly word count
    # which GH-hosted runner to use, in this case we don't really mind as long
    # as its linux and `ubuntu-latest` is what GH provides. Also fairly simple
    # to modify later
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # Need some dependencies
      # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/checkout

      # Website is needed
      # and needs a PAT to trigger the `publish` push workflow
      - name: Checkout website
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          path: personal-website
          token: ${{ secrets.WEBSITE_TOKEN }}

      # also need the PhD repo
      - name: Checkout phd-thesis
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          repository: 'CodingCellist/phd-thesis'
          path: phd-thesis
          ref: 'main'
          token: ${{ secrets.PHD_TOKEN }}

      # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-python
      - name: Setup python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'
          cache: 'pip'
          cache-dependency-path: |
            personal-website/static/uploads/thesis-plot/requirements.txt

      # update `pip` and install plotly+pandas
      - name: Update pip, install deps
        run: |
          cd personal-website/static/uploads/thesis-plot/
          pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install -r requirements.txt
          # just to be safe
          cd ../../../../

      # download, extract, and configure the texcount perl script
      - name: Setup texcount
        run: |
          curl -L -o texcount.zip https://app.uio.no/ifi/texcount/download.php?file=texcount_3_2_0_41.zip
          unzip texcount.zip
          rm -rf Doc
          mv -v texcount{.pl,}
          chmod +x texcount
          # add current location to the path for texcount to be available
          echo "$PWD" >> $GITHUB_PATH
      - name: Count the words
        run: |
          cd phd-thesis/latex-src
          chmod +x xwcount.sh
          # count the words, removing the stderr output and keeping only
          # numbers, add the date it was measured, and append the resulting data
          # entry to the data file
          ./xwcount.sh 2> /dev/null | grep -P '^\d+$' | tr -d '\n' | cat - <(echo -n ",") <(date -I) >> ../../personal-website/static/uploads/thesis-plot/wcount.csv
          cd ../..

      - name: Read data, make plot
        run: |
          cd personal-website
          python static/uploads/thesis-plot/plot.py > content/en/post/writing-up-a-phd/wcount-plot.json
          cd ..

      - name: Add plot and push
        run: |
          cd personal-website
          git config user.name github-actions
          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
          git commit -a -m "[ generated ] Nightly thesis plot"
          git push