gitzette

Weekly open-source digest — auto-generated from GitHub activity, rendered as a newspaper.

Live at gitzette.online

How it works

Sign in with GitHub (read:user scope only — no repo access requested). gitzette scans your public repos using a server-side token and generates a weekly dispatch: commits, PRs, releases, written up in newspaper style by an LLM.

Your dispatch lives at gitzette.online/@yourusername.

Quotas

• 3 manual regenerations per week per user (resets Monday)

Community-supported. Sponsor the project to get more generations per week.

Stack

• Cloudflare Workers (runtime)
• Cloudflare D1 (SQLite — users, sessions, quota, spend)
• Hono (routing)
• GitHub OAuth (read:user)
• OpenRouter (LLM copy generation)
• Google Imagen 4 (illustrations)

Deploy

# create D1 database
wrangler d1 create gitzette-db

# update wrangler.toml with the returned database_id
# run schema
wrangler d1 execute gitzette-db --remote --file=schema.sql

# set secrets
wrangler secret put GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
wrangler secret put GITHUB_TOKEN
wrangler secret put OPENROUTER_API_KEY
wrangler secret put GOOGLE_AI_KEY
wrangler secret put SESSION_SECRET

# deploy
wrangler deploy

Development

bun install
wrangler dev