Scheduled content update in a GitHub repository that triggers a static website build and publishes the result to Cloudflare Pages

01-update-content-schedule.yml

name: Update Content on schedule
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "13 0,12 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch: {}
jobs:
  trigger-update-content:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 5
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Dispatch the Update Content workflow
        env:
          # A Github Personal Access Token with access to the repository 
          # that has the follwing permissions:
          # ✅ Read and Write access to actions
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_PAT_ACTIONS }}
        run: |
          gh workflow run "Update Content" --ref main

02-update-content.yml

name: Update Content
on:
  workflow_dispatch: {}
jobs:
  download-content:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 5
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          # A Github Personal Access Token with access to the repository 
          # that has the follwing permissions:
          # ✅ Read and Write access to code
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_PAT_CONTENT }}
      - name: Setup pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version-file: .node-version
          cache: pnpm
      - name: Install node modules
        run: |
          pnpm --version
          pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
      - name: Download articles content from Notion
        env:
          NOTION_KEY: "${{ secrets.NOTION_KEY }}"
          NOTION_ARTICLES_DATABASE_ID: "${{ secrets.NOTION_ARTICLES_DATABASE_ID }}"
        run: |
          pnpm download-articles
      - name: Download bookmarks content from Notion
        env:
          NOTION_KEY: ${{ secrets.NOTION_KEY }}
          NOTION_BOOKMARKS_DATABASE_ID: ${{ secrets.NOTION_BOOKMARKS_DATABASE_ID }}
        run: |
          pnpm download-bookmarks
      - name: Configure Git
        run: |
          git config --global user.email "${{ secrets.GIT_USER_EMAIL }}"
          git config --global user.name "${{ secrets.GIT_USER_NAME }}"
      - name: Check if anything changed
        id: check-changes
        run: |
          if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
            echo "There are changes"
            echo "HAS_CHANGED=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
          else
            echo "There are no changes"
            echo "HAS_CHANGED=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
          fi
      - name: Commit changes
        if: steps.check-changes.outputs.HAS_CHANGED == 'true'
        run: |
          git add ./src/content
          git add ./public
          git commit -m "Automatic content update commit"
          git push

03-push-to-main.yml

name: Push
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch: {}
jobs:
  deploy-cloudflare-pages:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 5
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version-file: .node-version
          cache: pnpm
      - name: Install node modules
        run: |
          pnpm --version
          pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
      - name: Build the App
        run: |
          pnpm build
      - name: Publish Cloudflare Pages
        env:
          CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID }}
          CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          pnpm wrangler pages deploy ./out --project-name ${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_PROJECT_NAME }}