Daily Word #56

	name: Daily Word

	on:
	schedule:
	- cron: '0 5 * * *' # 6 AM CET (UTC+1); 7 AM CEST (UTC+2) in summer
	workflow_dispatch: # allow manual trigger from GitHub Actions UI

	jobs:
	update-word:
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	permissions:
	contents: write
	steps:
	- uses: actions/checkout@v5

	- name: Pick random unused word, write JSON, and commit
	run: \|
	DATE=$(TZ="Europe/Budapest" date +%Y-%m-%d)

	# Extract already-used words: only those with non-empty reflections
	USED_WORDS=$(jq -r '.[] \| select(.text != "") \| .word' data/reflections.json)

	# Pick a random word not in the history; fall back to fully random if exhausted
	WORD=$(grep -vxFf <(echo "$USED_WORDS") data/words.txt \| shuf -n 1)
	if [ -z "$WORD" ]; then
	WORD=$(shuf -n 1 data/words.txt)
	fi

	# Update word-of-day.json
	echo "{\"word\": \"$WORD\", \"date\": \"$DATE\"}" > data/word-of-day.json

	# Prepend to words-history.json
	jq --arg word "$WORD" --arg date "$DATE" \
	'[{"word": $word, "date": $date}] + .' \
	data/words-history.json > tmp.json && mv tmp.json data/words-history.json

	# Append new entry to reflections.json
	jq --indent 4 --arg date "$DATE" --arg word "$WORD" \
	'. + [{"date": $date, "word": $word, "text": ""}]' \
	data/reflections.json > tmp.json && mv tmp.json data/reflections.json

	git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
	git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
	git add data/word-of-day.json data/words-history.json data/reflections.json
	git commit -m "Daily word: $WORD"
	git push

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