How to Watch Repositories on Github via a NewsFeed

TLDR; subscribe to master commits on github with /commits/master.atom

Github Lists

There exist a lot of ’lists’ and ’notes’ on github, not just source code.

e.g.

• List of ‘Awesome’ SecurityTalks
• List of ‘Awesome’ Lists
• Awesome Penetration Testing List
• CSS Refresher Notes
• List of public APIs
• Big list of naughty strings

I would like to be able to be notified when these lists change.

Monitoring Repos

There are official ways of watching repositories on github:

• https://help.github.com/categories/notifications/

I primarily use news feeds through newsblur.com

• https://help.github.com/articles/news-feed/

The newsfeeds officially documented provides a bit too much information for me.
I really just want to know when new commits are pushed to master.

But the personal news feed functionality requires me to ‘watch’ a repo and then I’ll receive changes for:

• issues
• pull request actions
• branch actions
• comments
• and all push commits

Monitoring via RSS

All I really care about are push commits to master.

I wanted to know when changes are made to:

• https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

The approach I take is to subscribe to the commits feed on

• /commits/master.atom

And therefore subscribe to the RSS Atom feed at:

• https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commits/master.atom

Video Demonstration

If you find any good testing resources on github then please let me know, either via a comment or contact me.