How to automatically catch changes in someone else's project on GitHub.com?

Question

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There is someone else's project on GitHub.com.
I need some kind of trigger to fire on commits or releases in that project and automatically make changes to my project. For example, my project would create a file with the last update date of that project.
How to implement it?

Answer 1

Nobody seems to know...
I had to write a program for this purpose - GitMon .
Lies here - https://github.com/MrKsey/GitMon
A program for automating polling of the commits and releases sections of any repository on github.com and performing actions specified by the user.

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