This GitHub Action (written in JavaScript) wraps the GitHub Release API, specifically the Get a Release endpoint, to allow you to leverage GitHub Actions to get releases.
Create a workflow .yml file in your .github/workflows directory. An example workflow is available below. My yj project uses this Action, see release.yml. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file.
This Action requires that the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN be set correctly.
For more information on these outputs, see the API Documentation for an example of what these outputs look like
id: The release IDhtml_url: The URL users can navigate to in order to view the release. For examplehttps://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/releases/v1.0.0upload_url: The URL for uploading assets to the release, which could be used by GitHub Actions for additional uses, for example the@actions/upload-release-assetGitHub Actiontag_name: The git tag associated with the release. For example:v1.1.0
Everytime a new release is created, build a binary for the release and upload it to the release on GitHub. This example is building and uploading a Linux binary for a Rust executable.
on:
release:
types: [created]
jobs:
build:
name: Build release binary
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Get release
id: get_release
uses: bruceadams/[email protected]
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
- name: Build binary
run: cargo build --release --verbose
- name: Upload release binary
uses: actions/[email protected]
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
with:
upload_url: ${{ steps.get_release.outputs.upload_url }}
asset_path: ./target/release/my-widget
asset_name: my-widget
asset_content_type: application/octet-streamThe scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License