Have URLs periodically checked

[cansavvy]

Purpose/implementation Section

What changes are being implemented in this Pull Request?

This is a start to having a GHA that will check URLs periodically on a course without being provoked.

A few things we have to develop here:

1. We probably want it to make an issue if there's a URL error found.
2. If no error is found, we want it to clean up the preview branch and everything it does.

The last bit I have to put in here is if an issue is already open for broken URLs, we don't want to create another one. There doesn't seem to be a convenient GitHub Action for this, so I'm going to have to write a GitHub API accessing script to do it myself. I'll add it to the github-helpers or cow package.

I tried https://github.com/nickderobertis/check-if-issue-exists-action and https://actions-cool.github.io/issues-helper/advanced#find-issues but both assume the GitHub Action you are running is being triggered by an issue based trigger which is not what is happening for us.

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Updated at 2024-02-29 with changes from 864246568516325df56fde81a2084dd1bcdfbeff

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:warning: broken urls :warning: There are broken urls that need to be addressed. Click here :arrow_right: for broken urls errors! :exclamation: Add errors that aren't errors to the resources/ignore-urls.txt file of this repo. If you are having troubles see this guide Comment updated at 2024-02-29 with changes from 864246568516325df56fde81a2084dd1bcdfbeff

[cansavvy]

All that's left here is to test if this works after my new package, githubr is added to CRAN. Which it is on its way.

If it works then I will see if this successfully makes an issue if there's a broken URL.

If it does, then I can delete the pull_request: trigger and then merge this.

[cansavvy]

@howardbaek I'm a bit stumped on why the GitHub API call isn't working here. It works locally. The only difference I can think of is the GitHub PAT.

[cansavvy]

@howardbaek Here's the GHA error I am not sure. It works locally for me but not here. Not sure what the difference is. Let me know if you have ideas. The specific error is:

Error in gh_process_response(raw) : 
GitHub API error (404): 
Message: Not Found
Read more at https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository

URL not found: https://api.github.com/repos/%7Brepo%7D/issues?repo=jhudsl%2FOTTR_Template&per_page=100
Calls: <Anonymous> ... <Anonymous> -> gh_process_response -> gh_error -> throw
Execution halted

It smells like an authentication error but its not an auth error I've been able to reproduce locally.