Repo Radar
A scheduled job that tells you when your dependencies get interesting.
What you're making
Runs by itself once a week and sends you a short digest of what happened to the projects you depend on — big releases, breaking changes, anything that got archived or handed to a new maintainer. It's the news you actually need and would never go looking for. Costs nothing because it runs on a schedule in your own repository.
A scheduled workflow that watches a list of repositories and delivers a digest of meaningful changes. The judgement is in filtering — most repository activity is noise, and a digest that reports everything gets muted immediately.
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Deploys free on GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Workers Cron or your own machine.
GitHub Actions runs scheduled jobs free on public repositories, so this can tick along without a server.
Runs on a schedule for free, or on your own machine.
Core features · 7
- Watches a configurable list of repositories
- Runs on a schedule with no server to maintain
- Reports releases, breaking changes and archived projects
- Filters out routine noise like dependency bumps
- Delivers a digest to a channel or an inbox
- Says nothing at all when there is genuinely no news
- Handles the API's rate limits gracefully
The interesting part
- Deciding what counts as newsworthy — this is the whole product
- Scheduled jobs get disabled on inactive repositories, which will silently stop it
- Storing state between runs when the job has no database
Once it works
- Score changes by how much they'd affect your code
- Watch specific files rather than whole repositories
- Add a monthly deep summary