Stackoverflow plugin generation error

[AthulMuralidhar]

• I am pretty new to workflows and i was trying them out with this on github marketplace
• i've been using stackoverflow and i thought it would be a nice edition to my readme
• here's my yml action

      - name: 🗨️ Stackoverflow
        if: ${{ success() || failure() }}
        uses: lowlighter/metrics@master
        with:
          filename: metrics.plugin.stackoverflow.svg
          token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
          base: ""
          plugin_stackoverflow: yes
          plugin_stackoverflow_user: 8689681
          plugin_stackoverflow_sections: answers-top
          plugin_stackoverflow_limit: 2
          plugins_errors_fatal: ${{ github.repository == 'lowlighter/lowlighter' }}
          output_action: pull-request
          delay: 120

here is the generated file:
https://github.com/AthulMuralidhar/AthulMuralidhar/blob/main/metrics.plugin.stackoverflow.svg

• frankly i do not know who this is referring to :/ please fix

[lowlighter]

Hello!

Thanks for using this GitHub Action 🙂

I think you should remove plugin_languages_indepth: yes from your workflow, it's making the runner timeout (unfortunately it seems you have repositories with too much commits for this feature so you need to use the default algorithm for this plugin).

Because of this, the stackoverflow plugin never gets actually updated, because it is placed after the language step.

The render you got is because it has never been actually updated and the config at that time was incomplete. With settings you linked above, you'll get your stats as expected (see below).

An additional note, when using output_action: pull-request, it is expected that you use pull-request-merge/pull-request-squash at the last one to auto-merge opened PR (see output_action documentation for more informations)

Hope this helps 👍 !

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[AthulMuralidhar]

thanks for the answer and the explanation - great plugin btw :)