📦 Dependabot Pull Request Action

This action is based on koj-co/dependabot-pr-action

A GitHub Action to automatically label, approve, and merge pull requests made by Dependabot. This was built because the auto-merge feature was removed when Dependabot became a native-GitHub feature.

⭐ Get started

You can run this workflow, for example, two times a day:

name: Automerge dependabot pr

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 7,12 * * *'

jobs:
  automerge:
    name: Auto-merge patch updates
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: mitto98/dependabot-automerge-action@master
        with:
          token: ${{ github.token }}
          merge-patch: true

Inputs

Optional inputs

To add labels to the Dependabot pull request, you can specify a comma-separated string of labels:

Input	Description	Required	Values	Version
token	Your GitHub token, usually {{ github.token }}	yes	string
merge	major, minor and patch		string
merge-prerelease	Merge prerelease releases		bool
approve	major, minor and patch		bool
approve-prerelease	Approve prerelease releases		bool
labels-major	Labels for major releases		csv
labels-minor	Labels for minor releases		csv
labels-patch	Labels for patch releases		csv
labels-premajor	Labels for premajor releases		csv
labels-preminor	Labels for preminor releases		csv
labels-prepatch	Labels for prepatch releases		csv
labels-prerelease	Labels for prerelease releases		csv
merge-major	Merge major releases		bool	Deprecated
merge-minor	Merge minor releases		bool	Deprecated
merge-patch	Merge patch releases		bool	Deprecated
merge-premajor	Merge premajor releases		bool	Deprecated
merge-preminor	Merge preminor releases		bool	Deprecated
merge-prepatch	Merge prepatch releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-major	Approve major releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-minor	Approve minor releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-patch	Approve patch releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-premajor	Approve premajor releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-preminor	Approve preminor releases		bool	Deprecated
approve-prepatch	Approve prepatch releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label	Auto label all releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-major	Auto label major releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-minor	Auto label minor releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-patch	Auto label patch releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-premajor	Auto label premajor releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-preminor	Auto label preminor releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-prepatch	Auto label prepatch releases		bool	Deprecated
auto-label-prerelease	Auto label prerelease releases		bool	Deprecated

Setting merge-prerelease causes all the prerelease pr to be merged and all the lower level pr. Ex: If mergeis set to minor, the script will merge minor and patch pr. Setting merge-prerelease to true will merge preminor and prepatch too.

• If you set any auto-label parameter to true, the release type (major, minor, etc.) label will be added to the pull request automatically, if all checks have passed
• If you set any merge parameter to true, the resulting pull request will be auto-merged, if all checks have passed
• If you set any approve parameter to true, the pull request will be automatically approved (with a pull request review), if all checks have passed

If you don't want to check for status checks, you can set the input ignore-status-checks to true. You can also set the merge-commit input if you want a custom merge commit message.