action steps - ORIGINAL README

This repo demonstrates several ways of using Github commit messages to trigger performative actions using Github Actions. Think of it as using commit messages as a command line interface.

Current examples include:

• As your commit message, enter: Update Readme to replace this README file with an updated one (README2.md in the master branch. Enter Reset Readme to replace this readme with the original.
• If you upload one or more zip files as part of a commit, and start the commit message with Unzip, the zipped files will be unzipped and committed to the repo, and the zip file will be deleted (i.e. removed from the repo).
• Create a dummy file or edit commands.txt to give you a chance to enter a commit message. Using a message of the form Fetch URL OUTDIR, where URL is URL from an OpenLearn Unit (such as https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/chemistry/the-molecular-world/content-section-1.1) and OUTDIR is the directory you want the content to be place in (for example, demo2) to give a commit message of the form: Fetch https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/chemistry/the-molecular-world/content-section-1.1 demoN. This will download the OU-XML source of an OpenLearn unit along with any associated image files and generate a markdown version of the unit into ./demoN. NOTE: it's probably best not to try to save the content into a directory that currently exists. By the by, you'll also get the XML and images saved into a SQLite3 database: openlearn_oer.db.
• Run a set of commands triggered from a Github Issue: as repo contributor, raise an issue starting with Fetch https://www.open.edu/openlearn as the title, and using a full OpenLearn course unit URL (if it ends in content-section-overview-0 or content-section-overview-0?SOMETHING it should work) as the first line in the issue body; for example: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/visions-protest-graffiti/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab Discussed here: https://blog.ouseful.info/2020/03/05/openlearn-oer-republishing-the-text-way/