dockerhub-description/README.md

# Docker Hub Description
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A GitHub action to update a Docker Hub repository description from `README.md`.

This is useful if you `docker push` your images to Docker Hub. It provides an easy, automated way to keep your Docker Hub repository description in sync with your GitHub repository `README.md` file.

## Usage

```yml
    - name: Docker Hub Description
      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
      with:
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
        repository: peterevans/dockerhub-description
```

### Action inputs

| Name | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `username` | (**required**) Docker Hub username. If updating a Docker Hub repository belonging to an organization, this user must have `Admin` permissions for the repository. | |
| `password` | (**required**) Docker Hub password or [Personal Access Token](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/access-tokens/) with `read/write/delete` scope. | |
| `repository` | Docker Hub repository in the format `<namespace>/<name>`. | `github.repository` |
| `short-description` | Docker Hub repository short description. | |
| `readme-filepath` | Path to the repository readme. | `./README.md` |
| `enable-url-completion` | Enables completion of relative URLs to absolute ones. See also [known Issues](#url-completion-known-issues). | `false` |
| `image-extensions` | File extensions that will be treated as images. | `bmp,gif,jpg,jpeg,png,svg,webp` |

#### Content limits

DockerHub has content limits.
The readme content is limited to 25,000 bytes, and `short-description` is limited to 100 characters.
This action truncates content to prevent the request being rejected.
If the content has been truncated a warning will be issued in the run log.

#### Specifying the file path

The action assumes that there is a file called `README.md` located at the root of the repository.
If this is not the case the path can be specified with the `readme-filepath` input.

```yml
    - name: Docker Hub Description
      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
      with:
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
        repository: peterevans/dockerhub-description
        readme-filepath: ./path/to/README.md
```

#### Using the GitHub repository description

The GitHub repository description can be used for the Docker Hub `short-descripton` by passing the description from the event context.

```yml
    - name: Docker Hub Description
      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
      with:
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
        repository: peterevans/dockerhub-description
        short-description: ${{ github.event.repository.description }}
```

### Examples

The following workflow updates the Docker Hub repository description whenever there are changes to `README.md` and the workflow file itself on the `main` branch. This workflow assumes its location to be `.github/workflows/dockerhub-description.yml`.

```yml
name: Update Docker Hub Description
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    paths:
      - README.md
      - .github/workflows/dockerhub-description.yml
jobs:
  dockerHubDescription:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Docker Hub Description
      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
      with:
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
        repository: peterevans/dockerhub-description
        short-description: ${{ github.event.repository.description }}
        enable-url-completion: true
```

Updates the Docker Hub repository description whenever a new release is created.

```yml
name: Update Docker Hub Description
on: release
jobs:
  dockerHubDescription:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Docker Hub Description
      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
      with:
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
        repository: peterevans/dockerhub-description
        short-description: ${{ github.event.repository.description }}
```

### URL completion known Issues

The completion of relative URLs has some known issues:

1. Relative markdown links in inline-code and code blocks **are also converted**:

   ```markdown
   [link in inline code](#table-of-content)
   ```

   will be converted into

   ```markdown
   [link in inline code](https://github.com/peter-evans/dockerhub-description/blob/main/./README.md#table-of-content)
   ```

2. Links containing square brackets (`]`) in the text fragment **are not converted**:

   ```markdown
   [[link text with square brackets]](#table-of-content)
   ```

3. [Reference-style links/images](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#reference-style-links) **are not converted**.

   ```markdown
   [table-of-content][toc]

   ...

   [toc]: #table-of-content "Table of content"
   ```

## Using the Docker image independently of GitHub Actions

The image can be executed in other environments independently of GitHub Actions.
Simply volume mount the location of the `README.md` file to the container and set environment variables as follows.

```bash
docker run -v $PWD:/workspace \
  -e DOCKERHUB_USERNAME='user1' \
  -e DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD='xxxxx' \
  -e DOCKERHUB_REPOSITORY='user1/my-docker-image' \
  -e README_FILEPATH='/workspace/README.md' \
  peterevans/dockerhub-description:3
```

## License

[MIT](LICENSE)