GitHub Action
GitHub API exec action
Execute arbitrary commands on Github's API, using octokit, such as creating pull requests.
This just passes a payload to the JS Octokit library. If the command doesn't exist, it will fail. Other than that, it should let you to do whatever you need with the GitHub API without having to create a new action.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if you nuke your whole repository/account/existence. Be responsible and create a scoped PAT that can only do what you need it to do!
If you do use secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN keep in mind the breadth of the permissions given to this token
Needed a quick way to execute GitHub's API commands, and GitHub's CLI doesn't seem to provide all possible commands (i.e. creating a PR, adding labels,etc.). This might work best for "prototyping" purposes, for which you can later create a proper action.
Creating a pull request:
jobs:
create-pr:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: moustacheful/github-api-exec-action@v0
with:
# This will add the repo name and owner to the payload
withRepo: true
# See https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/ for available commands
command: pulls.create
# You can use interpolation here!
payload: >
{
"title": "Test PR by ${{ github.actor }}",
"head": "feature/some-feature",
"base": "master"
}
# The path of the result, this uses dot notation to access the data, for instance
# for labels, we could use labels.0.name to get the first label's name. If you want
# the whole response, just dont include this, and the result will be the whole json
# You can later acess this data using the steps context
# https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/contexts-and-expression-syntax-for-github-actions#steps-context
resultPath: 'number'
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}- Tests!
- Common derived data, maybe? (e.g. PR id -- stuff that might not be immeditely available without parsing first)