BUG: dependabot bot is still shown in changelog

[bsipocz]

Describe the bug

It looks like the graphQL bot detection is not yet flawless, dependabot[bot] should have been excluded from this entry: https://github.com/executablebooks/github-activity/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v110---2025-12-09

relevant PRs:

• I'm fairly certain it worked after Allow excluding certain usernames from changelog #128 but Use GraphQL API for bot detection #146 took away those changes and apparently it doesn't work for a few bots.

Reproduce the bug

https://github.com/executablebooks/github-activity/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v110---2025-12-09

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[jtpio]

Similar observation with pre-commit-ci[bot] in https://github.com/jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser/releases/tag/v1.10.0

[jtpio]

The use of --ignore-contributor is a bit confusing.

For example this does not filter pre-commit-ci out:

github-activity jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser --since v1.9.0 --until v1.10.0 --kind pr --ignore-contributor pre-commit-ci

Details

Running search query:
repo:jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser type:pr
Found 2 items, which will take 1 pages

Found 3 items, which will take 1 pages
v1.9.0...v1.10.0
(full changelog)
Maintenance and upkeep improvements

Update to github-activity>=1.1.1, drop Python 3.9 #627 (@jtpio, @brichet, @krassowski)

Documentation improvements

Document npm trusted publishers #616 (@jtpio, @brichet, @krassowski, @pre-commit-ci[bot])

Contributors to this release
The following people contributed discussions, new ideas, code and documentation contributions, and review.

See our definition of contributors.
(GitHub contributors page for this release)
@brichet (activity) | @jtpio (activity) | @krassowski (activity) | @pre-commit-ci[bot] (activity)

But this does, with the extra * at the end:

github-activity jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser --since v1.9.0 --until v1.10.0 --kind pr --ignore-contributor "pre-commit-ci*"

Details

Running search query:
repo:jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser type:pr
Found 2 items, which will take 1 pages

Found 3 items, which will take 1 pages
v1.9.0...v1.10.0
(full changelog)
Maintenance and upkeep improvements

Update to github-activity>=1.1.1, drop Python 3.9 #627 (@jtpio, @brichet, @krassowski)

Documentation improvements

Document npm trusted publishers #616 (@jtpio, @brichet, @krassowski)

Contributors to this release
The following people contributed discussions, new ideas, code and documentation contributions, and review.

See our definition of contributors.
(GitHub contributors page for this release)
@brichet (activity) | @jtpio (activity) | @krassowski (activity)