Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

[yi-Xu-0100]

Describe the bug

Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

To Reproduce

Run actions/github-script@v3.1.0
  with:
    script: await github.pulls.create({
    owner: context.repo.owner,
    repo: context.repo.repo,
    head: prepare-release,
    base: main,
    title: 'chore(release): :bookmark: release v1.0.4',
    body: '
  ### Bug Fixes
  
  - **actions:** 🐛 fix not found branch ([25b4e19](https://github.com/yi-Xu-0100/test/commit/25b4e1926a26dca753a2b6bb8627881f47941428))
  - fix push error ([62458bf](https://github.com/yi-Xu-0100/test/commit/62458bf2fede7fe842cd9176cec6920a339469d8))',
    maintainer_can_modify: true,
  })
  
    github-token: ***
    debug: false
    user-agent: actions/github-script
    result-encoding: json
  env:
    BASE_BRANCH: main
    HEAD_BRANCH: prepare-release
SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at new AsyncFunction (<anonymous>)
    at callAsyncFunction (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:5368:56)
Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:5394:26)
    at Module.720 (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:5378:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:24:31)
    at startup (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:43:19)
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:49:18
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v3.1.0/dist/index.js:52:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)

https://github.com/yi-Xu-0100/test/runs/2104771640

[yi-Xu-0100]

I use the personal access token with repo permission, It also failed.

https://github.com/yi-Xu-0100/test/runs/2105106871

I also try the token locally, with the same code of the github-script, it is doing well. I do not know the reason for the error happening.

[joshmgross]

👋 @yi-Xu-0100 was this a previously working workflow that recently started failing? Or have you been consistently seeing these errors?

[yi-Xu-0100]

@joshmgross Thanks for your reply! Before this works, I did not use the github-scripts to do the workflows about creating a PR. I test again and get the error again even I use the try...catch. See in workflows about github-script. 😥

By the way, I use github-script well in doing the workflows about the issue even the issue is a PR. See in workflow about PR comment. 👀

[TiKevin83]

An action experiencing this issue last worked for us on 3/8 and began failing on 3/10. Experiencing the same behavior where act can run the script fine locally with the token hardcoded, but the same script run automatically in GitHub Actions can't pull the token from secrets.

[joshmgross]

@TiKevin83 could you share your workflow?

[yi-Xu-0100]

@joshmgross I don't know why, but it works fine at this time(v3.1.1). Even the v3.1.0 works fine also. 😅

If you don’t need to track this issue, just close it without asking. 😊

[joshmgross]

👍 Thanks @yi-Xu-0100, glad to hear it's working fine.

@TiKevin83 feel free to file a new issue with an example workflow or run hitting this issue.

If you started having issues in early March and it's only affecting Dependabot workflows, you may be impacted by the changes we made to limit Dependabot to read-only access, see https://github.blog/changelog/2021-02-19-github-actions-workflows-triggered-by-dependabot-prs-will-run-with-read-only-permissions/ for more information.

[TiKevin83]

thanks for pointing out that article, the change between the pull_request and pull_request_target events was what was affecting us