This GitHub Action can build and deploy a Nikola website.

Current version: getnikola/nikola-action@v8

Full tutorial on the Nikola blog: Automating Nikola rebuilds with GitHub Actions

Short version:

1. Create a repository with a Nikola site.
2. Configure nikola github_deploy. Build and deploy your site locally first.
3. Ensure the correct branch for deployment is set on GitHub (repository settings). Refer to this guide.
4. Create a .github/workflows/main.yml file with the Sample Workflow.

on: [push]

jobs:
  nikola_build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: 'Deploy Nikola to GitHub Pages'
    steps:
    - name: Check out
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build and Deploy Nikola
      uses: getnikola/nikola-action@v4
      with:
        dry_run: false

• dry_run - if set to true only page build is performed, deploy is skipped

By default, the action will install the latest stable release of Nikola[extras]. If you want to use the bleeding-edge version from master, or want to install some extra dependencies, you can provide a requirements.txt file in the repository.

The action will attempt to import conf before installing Nikola or your requirements. If your conf.py has any imports outside of stdlib, you need to wrap those with a try-except block. For example, if you want to use filters, your conf.py should have this:

try:
    from nikola import filters
    FILTERS = {
        ".html": [filters.typogrify],
        ".js": [filters.closure_compiler],
        ".jpg": ["jpegoptim --strip-all -m75 -v %s"],
    }
except ImportError:
    FILTERS = {}