update-site-list.yml

name: Update Site List 

# Trigger the workflow when changes are pushed to the main branch
# and the changes include the sherlock/resources/data.json file
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master 
    paths:
      - sherlock/resources/data.json

jobs:
  sync-json-data:
    # Use the latest version of Ubuntu as the runner environment
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # Check out the code at the specified pull request head commit
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
          fetch-depth: 0

      # Install Python 3
      - name: Install Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.x' 

      # Execute the site_list.py Python script
      - name: Execute site_list.py
        run: python site_list.py

       # Commit any changes made by the script
      - name: Commit files
        run: |
          git config --local user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
          if ! git diff --exit-code; then
            git commit -a -m "Updated Site List"
          fi

      # Push the changes to the remote repository
      - name: Push changes
        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          branch: ${{ github.ref }}