GitHub Action: Download GitHub Release Assets

Inspired by dsaltares/fetch-gh-release-asset GitHub Action and several others, this action downloads all assets from a Release, without needing to build a Docker container.

This results in a faster job execution, since GitHub Actions Runner will execute the JavaScript code directly. :)

Example

name: ci

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'master'
    tags:
      - 'v*'

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Download release dependencies
        uses: duhow/download-github-release-assets@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }}
          repository: actions/runner
          tag: v2.282.1
          files: actions-runner-linux-x64-*.tar.gz
          target: apps/actions-runner.tar.gz
      - name: Extract
        run: |
          tar xzvf apps/actions-runner.tar.gz

Inputs

token

Optional GitHub Token to authenticate as. Defaults to ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

repository

The org/repo containing the release. Defaults to the current repository.

release-id

The Release ID version to fetch. If no tag is specified, defaults to latest release.

tag

The Git tag name to fetch the release from.

files

Required The name of the file/s to download as a list, or single file. If files is set to '*', all assets are downloaded.
You can use * wildcard to select a file pattern.

files: |
  config.json
  program-*.exe

target

Target file path. If several files are specified, this is the folder to download the files (recursive folders will be created if don't exist). If files contains a single file, this is the full path to download the file (recursive folders will be created).

download

Set to false if you do not want to download files, output assets still will contain selected files.

Outputs

name

The title / name of the selected release.

body

The description / body of the selected release.

tag

The Git tag value of the selected release. Useful to attempt knowing the version if you selected latest.

assets

List of full path assets downloaded.