CarbonRunner

[Digital Pebble]

Hi, 

I am a big fan of https://carbonrunner.io/ and use it for another open source project.

If we were to get free access to it, would anyone object to using it for our GH workflows?
What CarbonRunner does is that, instead of running on servers where the electricity grid is CO2-intensive, it selects automatically a clear region and runs the workflows there instead.
As users, it makes no difference to us, all it takes is to change one line of code in the workflows.

Over the last 12 months, crawler-commons and url-frontier have used respectively 572 and 464 minutes - not a huge amount I agree but given how little effort it takes to reduce the impact of these minutes, why not do it?

Any thoughts?

Julien

[Richard Zowalla]

No objections from my side.

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[Sebastian Nagel]

+1

Thanks, Julien!

On 12/5/25 20:54, Richard Zowalla wrote:
> No objections from my side.
>
> Am Fr., 5. Dez. 2025 um 12:41 Uhr schrieb Digital Pebble <
> jul...@digitalpebble.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a big fan of https://carbonrunner.io/ and use it for another open

>> source project <https://github.com/DigitalPebble/spruce>.

>>
>> If we were to get free access to it, would anyone object to using it for
>> our GH workflows?
>> What CarbonRunner does is that, instead of running on servers where the
>> electricity grid is CO2-intensive, it selects automatically a clear region
>> and runs the workflows there instead.
>> As users, it makes no difference to us, all it takes is to change one line
>> of code in the workflows.
>>
>> Over the last 12 months, crawler-commons and url-frontier have used
>> respectively 572

>> <https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons/actions/metrics/usage?dateRangeType=DATE_RANGE_TYPE_LAST_YEAR>
>> and 464 minutes
>> <https://github.com/crawler-commons/url-frontier/actions/metrics/usage?dateRangeType=DATE_RANGE_TYPE_LAST_YEAR> -

>> not a huge amount I agree but given how little effort it takes to reduce
>> the impact of these minutes, why not do it?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Julien
>>
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[Julien Nioche]

Great, see

https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons/pull/557
and
https://github.com/crawler-commons/url-frontier/pull/142

CarbonRunner have kindly given us free access. 

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