Automatically updating NuGet packages

[VahidN]

Github supports actions with cron jobs. If you add GeneratePackageOnBuild to the .csproj to build a .nupkg file automatically, it's easy to push it to the NuGet server this way:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
    </PropertyGroup>

name: .NET Core Build

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  schedule:
    - cron: "30 23 * * *"

    
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup .NET Core
        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
        with:
            dotnet-version: 8.0.x

    - name: Build library
      run: dotnet build ./UAParser/UAParser.csproj --configuration Release

    - name: Push Package to NuGet.org
      run: dotnet nuget push **\*.nupkg -k ${{ secrets.NUGET_API_KEY }} -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json --skip-duplicate

This is a sample .github\workflows\build.yml file's content with a cron job which executes every night and automatically builds the project, creates the nuget package and then sends it to the nuget server. The NUGET_API_KEY should be defined in the settings/secrets/actions section of this repository as a new Repository secret.