Uploading a single file

[lannonbr]

Say I wish to upload a screenshot made from puppeteer, can it be possible to upload just the image generated rather than a zip file only containing that image.

[TingluoHuang]

you can't since we use the artifact name as a folder to hold all uploaded files.

[os6sense]

@TingluoHuang I think that counts as a feature request :)

[TingluoHuang]

@os6sense agreed, the UI could have some pop-up dialog to allow you download individual file within your artifact.

[eine]

IMHO, this action could/should:

• Support providing a list of items, each being either a folder (current behaviour), a file (first comment above), a glob pattern (also requested in Feature request: wildcards #11), or an exclude pattern (Exclude files/dirs either by name or regexp #44 (comment)).
• NOT package the content automatically.
• The name should be optional, and only used to create 'sections' in the pop-up, not to name the artifacts.

For example:

  with:
    title: my-artifacts
      - files: [ path/to/artifact.tar.gz ]
      - name: "Packages"
        files: [ path/to/rpms/*.rpm,  path/to/debs/*.deb ]
      - name: "Docs"
        files: [ "README.md", path/to/docs, !path/to/docs/tmp ]

would create:

• my-artifacts:
  • artifact.tar.gz
  • Packages:
    • package_x86_64.rpm
    • package_aarch64.rpm
    • package_x86_64.deb
    • package_aarch64.deb
  • Docs
    • README.md
    • USE_GUIDE.md
    • CHANGELOG.md

Ideally, the GUI would allow to download each file separately OR a tarball of each of the sections ('Packages' and/or 'Docs', in these examples), as suggested by @TingluoHuang.

EDIT

Related to #5, each of the files or sections should also have a 'remove' button, only visible to maintainers.

Ideally, it would be possible to reorganize the content of the 'artifacts folder'. I.e., move items from a section to another.

[Stanzilla]

Yup, would love to be able to upload files instead. my build process already ends with a zip file and currently this action would just zip the zip.

[eine]

Yup, would love to be able to upload files instead. my build process already ends with a zip file and currently this action would just zip the zip.

This is worse with any non-zip package/tarball. For zips I extract them, so they are compressed again. However, for tar.gz, you get double compression.

[Stanzilla]

@damccorm any plans for that?

[eine]

@damccorm any plans for that?

/cc @madhurig

[mooreatv]

I would also love to be able to specify an already made zip or other single file instead of getting zip containing a zip

[Jeff-Tian]

Bump

[eine]

This issue and #7 sum up ~100 reactions. @chrispat, @TingluoHuang, @madhurig, might we have an update about the status of this enhancement request?

[pelotom]

Also, I had a process which produced a .zip file, and when I discovered this idiosyncrasy I removed that step so that it just uploaded the directory... only to discover that the build now took 20 minutes where before it took ~1. It appears that when you do upload a folder, it does the zipping on the server instead of the client, which is just... why? I'm left feeling the only reasonable way to use this action is to zip your artifact locally yourself, then upload it and live with the fact that you will have to download a zip containing a zip.

[jperl]

Ideally you could upload files uncompressed and be able to reference them by url. That way you could include screenshots within markdown of a status check / comment.

[chrisdembia]

This would be fantastic. In particular, the current zipping does not preserve symlinks or the executable bit.

[dpy013]

hello all
Is there a plan to solve this issue in 2022?

[dpowers86]

At the minimum, if the artifact is just a single file, the web interface shouldn't ZIP the file. Pass the raw file with the proper MIME type so if I upload a PDF or JPEG, I can just click it on the Actions tab and view it in my browser without unzipping it.

Unfortunately this seems to be a common theme with GitHub. Issues that I would consider show-stoppers or at least significant quality of life improvement are just rotting or getting closed without any time table except for "its on the back burner". If I could download individual items via the web or get the URLs from the API, we would likely need to pay GH for more storage. Instead I'll likely just use an S3 bucket and pay Amazon to store my stuff. They will let me set retention policies and a storage class so I can control my costs.

[fatinfarzanaazizan]

@konradpabjan are there any updates on this? would be nice to have this feature in 2022. thanks

[and3rson]

Any progress on this? Being able to download a non-zipped artifact is absolutely vital.

[JojOatXGME]

@and3rson I think #14 is the currently relevant successor for this topic.

[khans6]

I would also like this feature of downloading the uploaded artifact if its a single file as it is. It is annoying when it zips an already zipped file. I would really appreciate if it is implemented!

[dhruv-bansal]

> Upload-artifact not working for steps running in containers #13

Is this supported added?
With single upload actions can I create different artefacts with different path of files or I have to call this action multiple times?

[excitoon]

I would like to have this feature.

[rexlManu]

I would really really like to have this feature!

[LeonardoBerlatto]

I really want this feature

[ADTC]

If this is a UI problem, then the solution would be for the UI to detect and modify its download action as follows:

• If the artifact contains exactly 1 file, download the file directly.
• If the artifact contains more than 1 file, zip the files up automatically and download the zip.

Who maintains the UI? Is it part of this repository?

[DineshRaturi-cpi]

Do we have any solution for this problem?
I want to upload a .png image on github actions and want to send its URL to slack. But since GitHub actions upload its artficats in zip format, I am unable to do that. Kindly help

[MCOfficer]

Do we have any solution for this problem? I want to upload a .png image on github actions and want to send its URL to slack. But since GitHub actions upload its artficats in zip format, I am unable to do that. Kindly help

Upload it somewhere -anywhere- else. Even nightly.link gives you zip files, so artifacts are not the solution here.

[torokati44]

+1 for this feature request... :P

[bosakstepan]

Needed!

[hajdukda]

Do we have any solution for this problem? I want to upload a .png image on github actions and want to send its URL to slack. But since GitHub actions upload its artficats in zip format, I am unable to do that. Kindly help

Upload it somewhere -anywhere- else. Even nightly.link gives you zip files, so artifacts are not the solution here.

We pay for storage to use it. Stop being petty.

[MCOfficer]

Just to be clear, I'm not affiliated with github, that was just me telling you what we're stuck with. As of now, our best option to enable direct downloads is to upload it somewhere else. For example, make a separate repo, and have your CI push artifacts onto that repo's release page. Or push it onto netlify, or an R2 bucket (which has no egress fees).

---

Sidenote while i'm already posting: every "+1" or "needed" is sending notifications to at least 40 people. please just use the reactions on the original comment.