GitHub Repo Weekly Summary

Generates a Markdown narrative summary of any GitHub repo's last N days of activity — commits, merged PRs, closed issues — bilingual (English / French). Optionally posts the summary to Slack or Discord via webhook. Powered by Anthropic Claude with prompt caching.

What it does

1. Takes a repo name (owner/name) and a lookback window
2. Pulls the last N days of commits, closed issues, and merged PRs from GitHub's REST API
3. Deduplicates merge commits, drops PRs from the /issues endpoint, filters to the exact time window
4. Hands the cleaned data to Claude for a narrative summary with 4 sections (Overview, Highlights, By the numbers, What to watch)
5. Pushes the structured record to the default dataset
6. (Optional) Posts the rendered Markdown to a Slack or Discord webhook

Input

{
  "repo": "pallets/click",                         // required, owner/name
  "days": 7,                                        // 1-90
  "language": "en",                                 // en | fr
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-...",                  // optional; falls back to heuristic if absent
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  "githubToken": "ghp_...",                         // optional; raises rate limits, enables private repos
  "destination": "dataset",                          // dataset | slack | discord
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/...",  // required if destination=slack
  "discordWebhookUrl": "https://discord.com/..."     // required if destination=discord
}

Output

Dataset record:

{
  "repo": "pallets/click",
  "since": "2026-05-04T22:50:00+00:00",
  "until": "2026-05-11T22:50:00+00:00",
  "language": "en",
  "mode": "llm",
  "counts": {"commits": 18, "merged_prs": 7, "closed_issues": 3},
  "markdown": "**Weekly summary — pallets/click**\n_Week of 2026-05-04 to 2026-05-11_\n\n## Overview\n…"
}

Typical use cases

• Engineering manager weekly digest — schedule the Actor every Friday at 5pm, destination=slack, watch your team's progress land in the channel automatically.
• OSS maintainer release notes — run on demand for any tag-to-tag window, paste the Markdown into a release.
• Investor / stakeholder update — bilingual (FR) is useful for European stakeholders.
• Personal accountability — run on your own repo every week to see what you actually shipped.

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event: charged once per completed summary, regardless of how many commits/issues/PRs are summarized. Specifics on the Actor's Store page.

(Developer note: SDK fires Actor.charge('summary-completed') once per run. Configure the unit price in Console → Actor → Publication → Pricing.)

What about the n8n version?

There's also an open-source n8n workflow with the same logic, available at github.com/claude-builders-bounty/claude-builders-bounty/pull/799. This Apify Actor is for users who don't want to run n8n themselves — zero infrastructure, just click Run.

Scheduling

In the Apify Console, open this Actor → Schedules tab → Create new schedule. Set a cron expression (0 17 * * 5 = Fridays at 5pm) and the same input you'd use for an on-demand run. Apify runs it on their compute, you pay only the Pay-Per-Event charge per run.