monthly-check: Improve username validation workflow

Refactor the monthly username validation workflow for improved clarity and maintainability.

Also updated lychee.md to the link to the CLI documentation page in the docs site.

Author: waldyrious

.github/workflows/monthly-check.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-name: Monthly check GitHub usernames
+name: Monthly check GitHub usernames in CODEOWNERS and MAINTAINERS.md
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
-    - cron: "0 0 1 * *"
+    - cron: "0 0 1 * *" # Run on the 1st of every month at midnight UTC
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -13,62 +13,63 @@ jobs:
   check-usernames:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - name: Restore lychee cache
-      id: restore-cache
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-      with:
-        path: .lycheecache
-        key: cache-lychee-${{ github.sha }}
-        restore-keys: cache-lychee-
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
 
-    - run: |
-        cat .github/CODEOWNERS | grep -o "@[a-zA-Z0-9_-]\+" | sort -u | sed 's/@/https:\/\/api.github.com\/users\//' > usernames.txt
-        cat MAINTAINERS.md | grep -o "\*\*.*@[a-zA-Z0-9_-]\+.*\*\*" | grep -o "@[a-zA-Z0-9_-]\+" | sort -u | sed 's/@/https:\/\/api.github.com\/users\//' >> usernames.txt
-        sort -u usernames.txt -o usernames.txt
+    # Extract GitHub usernames from the CODEOWNERS and MAINTAINERS.md files
+    # and convert them to GitHub API URLs for validation
+    - name: Extract GitHub usernames for validation
+      run: |
+        {
+          # Extract usernames from CODEOWNERS (format: @username)
+          grep -oP "@[\w-]+" .github/CODEOWNERS
+
+          # Extract usernames from MAINTAINERS.md (same format, but wrapped in bold to select only current maintainers)
+          perl -ne 'm/\*\*.+(@[\w-]+)/ && print "$1\n"' MAINTAINERS.md
+        } | sort -u | sed 's#@#https://api.github.com/users/#' > username_urls.txt
 
-    - name: Lychee URL checker
+    - name: Validate GitHub usernames with the Lychee URL checker
       uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@885c65f3dc543b57c898c8099f4e08c8afd178a2 # v2.6.1
-      id: lychee
+      id: lychee # Step ID to reference later
       continue-on-error: true
       with:
         args: >-
-          --cache 
-          --verbose 
-          --no-progress 
+          --verbose
+          --no-progress
           --max-concurrency 25
-          usernames.txt
+          --output lychee_report.txt
+          username_urls.txt
       env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-    - name: Find the last report issue open
+    - name: Find an existing username validation issue
       uses: micalevisk/last-issue-action@0d40124cc99ac8601c2516007f0c98ef3d27537b # v2.3.0
-      id: last-issue
+      id: last-issue # Step ID to reference later
       with:
-        state: open
+        state: all
         labels: check usernames
       env:
         GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-    - name: Update last report open issue created
-      if: ${{ env.lychee_exit_code != 0 }}
+    - name: Create or update username validation issue if there are errors
+      if: steps.lychee.outcome == 'failure'
       uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@fca9117c27cdc29c6c4db3b86c48e4115a786710 # v6.0.0
       with:
         title: GitHub usernames with errors
-        content-filepath: lychee/out.md
+        content-filepath: lychee_report.txt
         issue-number: ${{ steps.last-issue.outputs.issue-number }}
         labels: check usernames
 
-    - name: Close last report open issue
-      if: ${{ env.lychee_exit_code == 0 && steps.last-issue.outputs.has-found == 'true' }}
-      run: gh issue close ${{ steps.last-issue.outputs.issue-number }}
-
-    - name: Save lychee cache
-      uses: actions/cache/save@5a3ec84eff668545956fd18022155c47e93e2684 # v4.2.3
-      if: always()
-      with:
-        path: .lycheecache
-        key: ${{ steps.restore-cache.outputs.cache-primary-key }}
+    - name: Close or reopen username validation issue as needed
+      if: steps.last-issue.outputs.has-found == 'true'
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      run: |
+        if [[ "${{ steps.lychee.outcome }}" == "success" ]]; then
+          gh issue close ${{ steps.last-issue.outputs.issue-number }} --comment "All usernames are valid again. Closing this issue."
+        else
+          gh issue reopen ${{ steps.last-issue.outputs.issue-number }} --comment "Invalid usernames found. Reopening this issue."
+        fi

pages/common/lychee.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # lychee
 
 > Find broken URLs.
-> More information: <https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/blob/master/README.md#commandline-usage>.
+> More information: <https://lychee.cli.rs/guides/cli/>.
 
 - Scan a website for broken links: