Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Autogit Shell
the script can be added to the crontab of your server to automatically commit any changes to your github repository.
💻 Script
Words in square brackets need to be replaced
these are:
| to replace | description |
|---|---|
| project-path | location of your project eg. /var/www/project |
| user | github user |
| password | Password of your github user (see password info) |
| repo.git | link of your github repo |
password info
To avoid getting any error messages, make sure your password is escaped
! # $ & ' ( ) * + , / : ; = ? @ [ ]
%21 %23 %24 %26 %27 %28 %29 %2A %2B %2C %2F %3A %3B %3D %3F %40 %5B %5D
🔑 Authorization
chmod 755 autogit.sh
⏲ Crontab
You can run the script every 30 minutes using a cronjob like
*/30 * * * * /home/autogit.sh
for more crontab infos check out https://crontab.guru