1. Add your wakatime api key from here, in your repository secrets with the name WAKATIME_API_KEY.

2. Optional: If you are adding this action to a repository other than your profile repository (<username>/<username>), add your Github API Token from here, in your repository secrets with the name GITHUB_TOKEN.

3. Go to actions tab of your repository, click New workflow, and then click the link set up a workflow yourself.

4. Replace all the file contents with the following:

   name: Wakatime Charts
   
   on:
     workflow_dispatch:
     schedule:
       - cron: "0 0 * * *"
   
   jobs:
     update-charts:
       name: Update wakatime stats charts
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       steps:
         - uses: dvjn/wakatime-charts@master
           with:
             WAKATIME_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_API_KEY }}
             GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # only required if using the action in repository other than profile

5. Commit this workflow file.

Note: The action will run at 00:00 UTC everyday to update the images.

• BRANCH_NAME: Set the branch on which charts are pushed. Defaults to master
• COMMIT_MESSAGE: Set the commit message for the changes. Defaults to 📊
• IMAGES_FOLDER: Set the folder name in which generated images are stored. Defaults to images
• GIT_USER_EMAIL: Set the user email for git config. Defaults to Github Action Bot's email 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• GIT_USER_NAME: Set the user name for git config. Defaults to Github Action

Link for the generated images is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<username>/<repository>/<branch_name>/<images_folder>/<chart_name>.svg

Where, the chart name is one of wakatime_weekly_language_stats and wakatime_weekly_project_stats.

• wakatime-readme
• Profile-Readme-WakaTime
• github-readme-stats