star-map/.github/workflows/data-refresh.yml

name: Refresh the catalogues

# Re-runs the ETL against the live archives on a schedule and republishes the site when the data
# actually changed, so the catalogues track NASA without anyone touching the code. The archives
# this reads — HYG, the Exoplanet Archive, JPL Horizons, OpenNGC, Gaia — are all anonymous
# public endpoints; no keys are involved.
on:
  schedule:
    # Mondays 05:23 UTC. An arbitrary minute rather than :00, which is the busiest minute on
    # GitHub's cron fleet and the most likely to be delayed or dropped.
    - cron: '23 5 * * 1'
  workflow_dispatch:

# Never two refreshes at once, and never cancel one mid-push.
concurrency:
  group: data-refresh
  cancel-in-progress: false

permissions:
  contents: write # push the regenerated catalogues to main
  actions: write # dispatch the deploy and CI afterwards — see the final step

jobs:
  refresh:
    name: Fetch, gate, publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 30
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          # The data lives on main and the push below goes to main, whichever ref the workflow
          # file itself ran from.
          ref: main

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
        with:
          node-version: 22
          cache: npm

      - run: npm ci

      # Gaia DR3 is a frozen release: the same query returns the same bytes (a live re-fetch has
      # reproduced stars.bin exactly), so its responses are carried from one run to the next
      # rather than re-downloaded every week from an archive that times out under load. The key
      # follows gaia.ts, where the queries are written, so a changed query is fetched afresh.
      - uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: tools/etl/.cache/gaia-dr3-*.csv
          key: gaia-dr3-${{ hashFiles('tools/etl/sources/gaia.ts') }}

      # Every other source is fetched live on this fresh runner. A failed fetch fails the run by
      # design — no refresh is better than a partial one. That includes Gaia on a cold cache:
      # the ETL skips it when unreachable, and the merge gate in build.ts then refuses a
      # catalogue it contributed nothing to.
      - name: Rebuild the datasets
        run: npm run etl

      - name: Detect a real change
        id: diff
        run: |
          if git diff --quiet -- src/assets/data; then
            echo "changed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
            echo "The archives published nothing new — catalogues are byte-identical." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
          else
            echo "changed=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
            { echo "Catalogue changes:"; echo '```'; git diff --stat -- src/assets/data; echo '```'; } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
          fi

      # The same gates CI runs, run here instead: the push below is made with GITHUB_TOKEN, and
      # GitHub deliberately fires no workflows for such pushes, so the data must be proven
      # before it lands rather than checked after.
      - name: Unit tests against the new data
        if: steps.diff.outputs.changed == 'true'
        run: npm test -- --no-watch

      - name: Production build against the new data
        if: steps.diff.outputs.changed == 'true'
        run: npm run build

      - name: Commit to main
        if: steps.diff.outputs.changed == 'true'
        run: |
          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git add src/assets/data
          git commit -m "Refresh the astronomical catalogues" \
            -m "Scheduled re-run of the ETL against the live archives. Gated on the unit suite and a production build in this same run, because a GITHUB_TOKEN push triggers no CI of its own."
          git push origin HEAD:main

      # The recursion guard that keeps the bot push from triggering `push` workflows also keeps
      # it from deploying, so the deploy — and a visible CI record on the new commit — are
      # dispatched explicitly. Dispatch does go through, unlike push events.
      - name: Redeploy the site, and put checks on the commit
        if: steps.diff.outputs.changed == 'true'
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        run: |
          gh workflow run pages.yml --ref main
          gh workflow run ci.yml --ref main