From 297f6ae0cb845fc32705970b7977678fd0ce53d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxwell Elliott Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:29:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix: exclude bot accounts from README contributors GitHub Actions and other bots were appearing in the generated contributors table; skip accounts typed as Bot or named with the [bot] suffix. Co-authored-by: Cursor --- README.md | 13 ++++++------- tools/generate_readme.py | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3870e34..07ee59f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -766,53 +766,52 @@ bazel run @bazel-diff//cli:bazel-diff -- bazel-diff -h Maxwell Elliott
Maxwell Elliott Honnix
Honnix - github-actions[bot]
github-actions[bot] eric wang
eric wang Eric Wang
Eric Wang Tianyu Geng
Tianyu Geng + Patrick Balestra
Patrick Balestra - Patrick Balestra
Patrick Balestra Daniel P. Purkhus
Daniel P. Purkhus Alex Eagle
Alex Eagle Anton Malinskiy
Anton Malinskiy rdark
rdark Cory Paik
Cory Paik + Ted Kaplan
Ted Kaplan - Ted Kaplan
Ted Kaplan Sharmila
Sharmila Dmitrii Kostyrev
Dmitrii Kostyrev Jérémy Mathevet
Jérémy Mathevet Nikhil Birmiwal
Nikhil Birmiwal Sergei Morozov
Sergei Morozov + Fahrzin Hemmati
Fahrzin Hemmati - Fahrzin Hemmati
Fahrzin Hemmati Jaime Lennox
Jaime Lennox jmwachtel
jmwachtel Alex Trotta
Alex Trotta Johan Mjönes
Johan Mjönes Lucas Teixeira
Lucas Teixeira + Guillaume Van Wassenhove
Guillaume Van Wassenhove - Guillaume Van Wassenhove
Guillaume Van Wassenhove Fabian Meumertzheim
Fabian Meumertzheim Jonathan Block
Jonathan Block Alex Torok
Alex Torok Naveen Narayanan
Naveen Narayanan Mathieu Sabourin
Mathieu Sabourin + André
André - André
André Boris
Boris Rui Chen
Rui Chen Sanju Naik
Sanju Naik Laurenz
Laurenz mla
mla + tinder-yukisawa
tinder-yukisawa - tinder-yukisawa
tinder-yukisawa Kevin Jiao
Kevin Jiao Vincent Case
Vincent Case Walt Panfil
Walt Panfil diff --git a/tools/generate_readme.py b/tools/generate_readme.py index 2a7077c..c8929a2 100644 --- a/tools/generate_readme.py +++ b/tools/generate_readme.py @@ -130,8 +130,11 @@ def fetch_github_email_map(repo: str) -> dict[str, dict]: gh_author = commit.get("author") email = (commit.get("commit") or {}).get("author", {}).get("email", "") if gh_author and email and email not in email_map: + login = gh_author["login"] + if is_bot_account(login=login, account_type=gh_author.get("type", "")): + continue email_map[email] = { - "login": gh_author["login"], + "login": login, "avatar_url": gh_author["avatar_url"], } @@ -152,6 +155,17 @@ def resolve_noreply_username(email: str) -> str | None: return local.split("+")[-1] +def is_bot_account(name: str = "", login: str = "", account_type: str = "") -> bool: + """Return True for GitHub Apps / Actions bots that should not appear as contributors.""" + if account_type == "Bot": + return True + # GitHub bot logins and commit author names conventionally end with "[bot]". + for value in (name, login): + if value.lower().endswith("[bot]"): + return True + return False + + # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Contributors section # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -173,7 +187,7 @@ def build_contributors_section(workspace_dir: Path, email_map: dict[str, dict]) continue name, email = line.split("\t", 1) name, email = name.strip(), email.strip() - if name: + if name and not is_bot_account(name=name): pair_counts[(name, email)] += 1 # Roll up by name: sum counts, pick the email with the highest count. @@ -200,7 +214,7 @@ def build_contributors_section(workspace_dir: Path, email_map: dict[str, dict]) # Fallback: try to extract username from noreply address. if not user: login = resolve_noreply_username(email) - if login: + if login and not is_bot_account(login=login): user = { "login": login, "avatar_url": f"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/{login}", @@ -208,6 +222,8 @@ def build_contributors_section(workspace_dir: Path, email_map: dict[str, dict]) if user: login = user["login"] + if is_bot_account(name=name, login=login): + continue base_avatar = user["avatar_url"].split("?")[0] avatar = base_avatar + "?s=64" profile = f"https://github.com/{login}"