diff --git a/.github/workflows/contributions.yaml b/.github/workflows/contributions.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca4b5e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/contributions.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+name: Contributions
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '**'
+    tags-ignore:
+      - '**'
+
+jobs:
+  contrib-readme-job:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR: github-actions[bot]
+      CI_COMMIT_EMAIL: <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
+      CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE: Update AUTHORS
+    name: A job to automate contrib in readme
+    steps:
+      - name: Contribute List
+        uses: akhilmhdh/contributors-readme-action@v2.3.6
+        with:
+          use_username: true
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Update AUTHORS
+        run: |
+          git config --global log.mailmap true
+          git log --reverse '--format=%aN <%aE>' | cat -n | sort -uk2 | sort -n | cut -f2- >AUTHORS
+
+      - name: Commit and push AUTHORS
+        run: |
+          git pull
+          git config --global user.name "${{ env.CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR }}"
+          git config --global user.email "${{ env.CI_COMMIT_EMAIL }}"
+          git commit -a -m "${{ env.CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE }}"
+          git push
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
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index 0000000..d5aa596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Andrew W. Buchanan <buchanan@difference.com>
+Davide Romanini <d.romanini@cineca.it> <davide.romanini@gmail.com>
+Davide Romanini <d.romanini@cineca.it> <user159033@92-63-141-211.rdns.melbourne.co.uk>
+Michael Fitzurka <MichaelFitzurka@users.noreply.github.com> <MichaelFitzurka@github.com>
+Timmy Welch <timmy@narnian.us>
+beville <beville@users.noreply.github.com> <(no author)@6c5673fe-1810-88d6-992b-cd32ca31540c>
+beville <beville@users.noreply.github.com> <beville@6c5673fe-1810-88d6-992b-cd32ca31540c>
+beville <beville@users.noreply.github.com> <beville@gmail.com@6c5673fe-1810-88d6-992b-cd32ca31540c>
+beville <beville@users.noreply.github.com> <beville@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a2b4454..42cba24 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,3 +61,9 @@ choco install comictagger
  2. Clone this repository `git clone https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger.git`
  3. `pip3 install -r requirements_dev.txt`
  7. `pip3 install .` or `pip3 install .[GUI]`
+
+
+## Contributors
+
+<!-- readme: beville,davide-romanini,collaborators,contributors -start -->
+<!-- readme: beville,davide-romanini,collaborators,contributors -end -->