🚀 Automatically create a fully structured Trello board — with lists and cards — using a simple JSON file and GitHub Actions. Ideal for developers, productivity enthusiasts, and teams that want to automate repetitive Trello setups.

• 🔄 Automated Trello board creation via REST API
• 🧾 JSON-based configuration for full control over lists and cards
• 🤖 GitHub Actions integration for seamless automation
• 🔐 API key and token managed securely with GitHub Secrets
• 💻 Built with Python + requests

{
  "name": "Personal Developer Dashboard",
  "lists": [
    {
      "name": "To Do",
      "cards": ["Build UI for Trello Creator", "Complete DSA Tracker", "Update Resume"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Doing",
      "cards": ["Build GitHub Action Workflow"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Done",
      "cards": ["Created Python Script", "Setup Trello API Access"]
    }
  ]
}

A full Trello board like this (auto-created):

📌 Personal Developer Dashboard
 ┣ 📂 To Do
 ┃ ┣ 📝 Build UI for Trello Creator
 ┃ ┣ 📝 Complete DSA Tracker
 ┃ ┗ 📝 Update Resume
 ┣ 📂 Doing
 ┃ ┗ 📝 Build GitHub Action Workflow
 ┗ 📂 Done
    ┣ 📝 Created Python Script
    ┗ 📝 Setup Trello API Access

• Visit https://trello.com/app-key
• Copy your API key and generate a token

git clone https://github.com/harshithaendreddy/trello-board-creator.git
cd trello-board-creator

Go to your repo → Settings → Secrets → Actions → New Repository Secret

• Go to the Actions tab on GitHub
• Run the workflow manually ("Create Trello Developer Dashboard")

.
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/
│       └── run.yml               # GitHub Action workflow
├── DeveloperDashboardBoard.json # Your board definition
├── trello_import.py             # Python script to create the board
└── README.md

• 🖥️ Build a UI where users can input JSON in-browser and generate boards directly
• 🌐 Add OAuth for Trello login and token retrieval
• 📊 Dashboard for past generated boards, analytics, and templates

🧠 Why This Project?
✅ Demonstrates real-world API integration
✅ Highlights DevOps knowledge (CI/CD via GitHub Actions)
✅ Encourages automation and productivity-driven development
✅ Great for personal project dashboards, team planning, or hackathons

If you're hiring engineers who love building developer tools and automating workflows, I'd love to connect!

💡 "Automation isn’t just for deployments — it’s for everything repetitive."

MIT License