Add GitHub Actions workflow for animation generation

Author: shamiquekhan

.github/workflows/main.yml

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+name: generate animation
+
+on:
+  # run automatically every 24 hours
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 */24 * * *" 
+  
+  # allows to manually run the job at any time
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  
+  # run on every push on the master branch
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+    
+  
+
+jobs:
+  generate:
+    permissions: 
+      contents: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    
+    steps:
+      # generates a snake game from a github user (<github_user_name>) contributions graph, output a svg animation at <svg_out_path>
+      - name: generate github-contribution-grid-snake.svg
+        uses: Platane/snk/svg-only@v3
+        with:
+          github_user_name: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
+          outputs: |
+            dist/github-contribution-grid-snake.svg
+            dist/github-contribution-grid-snake-dark.svg?palette=github-dark
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          
+          
+      # push the content of <build_dir> to a branch
+      # the content will be available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<github_user>/<repository>/<target_branch>/<file> , or as github page
+      - name: push github-contribution-grid-snake.svg to the output branch
+        uses: crazy-max/[email protected]
+        with:
+          target_branch: output
+          build_dir: dist
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}