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DenverCoder1/github-readme-youtube-cards
Workflow for displaying recent YouTube videos as SVG cards in your readme
A GitHub Action that polls your YouTube channel's RSS feed and writes SVG video cards into your README on a schedule. It's a single-purpose automation tool for developers who run a YouTube channel and want their profile to surface recent videos without manual updates.
The default path requires no YouTube API key — it uses the public RSS feed, so there's no quota to manage for basic usage. Dark/light mode card theming via `prefers-color-scheme` in `<picture>` elements is a genuinely good touch that most similar tools skip. The action exposes `output_only` mode so you can consume the generated markdown in a downstream step rather than committing directly, which makes it composable with other workflows. Test coverage is real — there are separate test files for the action logic, SVG rendering, locale handling, and validation.
The card rendering runs on a hosted service (`ytcards.demolab.com`) that you do not control — if that goes down or the author abandons it, every card in every README that uses the default `base_url` breaks simultaneously. The `show_duration` feature requiring a YouTube API key is a second dependency that adds quota management on top of the RSS simplicity. Pinning to `@main` in the example workflow is asking for breakage; there's no `@v1` or semver tag guidance in the README. At 284 stars it's not widely battle-tested, and the issue tracker likely has a long tail of edge cases around channel ID formats and RSS quirks.