Download Artifact on workflow_run event

Hugely inspired by work of @marocchino in marocchino/on_artifact.

Usage

name: Upload Artifact
on:
  pull_request:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  upload-artifact:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      # only required for workflows in private repositories
      actions: read

    steps:
      - name: Repository checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: README as Artifact
          path: README.md

name: Download Artifact
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: [ Upload Artifact ]
    types:
      - completed

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  download-artifact:
    if: >
      github.event.workflow_run.event == 'pull_request' &&
      github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      # required for all workflows when deleting artifact
      actions: write

    steps:
      - id: Artifact
        name: Download Artifact
        uses: redhat-plumbers-in-action/download-artifact@v1
        with:
          name: README as Artifact

      - name: Log Artifact data
        run: |
          echo "::warning::${{ steps.Artifact.outputs.README-md }}"

Configuration options

Action currently accepts the following options:

# ...

- uses: redhat-plumbers-in-action/download-artifact@v1
  with:
    name: <name of artifact>
    path: <relative path>
    remove-archive: <boolean>
    remove-extracted-files: <boolean>
    delete-artifact: <boolean>
    run-id: <id>
    token: <GITHUB_TOKEN or PAT>

# ...

name

Name of artifact.

• default value: undefined
• requirements: required

path

Downloaded artifact archive will be extracted to this destination. Default value is artifact name. Make sure that specified path exist.

• default value: name of artifact
• requirements: optional

remove-archive

When set to true, downloaded artifact archive will be removed from VM once it's extracted.

• default value: true
• requirements: optional

remove-extracted-files

When set to true, files extracted form artifact will be removed from VM. They will be still accessible by GitHub Action outputs.

• default value: false
• requirements: optional

delete-artifact

When set to true, GitHub Action will delete artifact from GitHub after it has been processed.

• default value: false
• requirements: optional

run-id

Identification of workflow with artifact that we want to download.

• default value: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
• requirements: optional

token

GitHub token used access GitHub API.

• default value: ${{ github.token }}
• requirements: optional