GitHub Action - Get a Releases

This GitHub Action (written in JavaScript) wraps the GitHub Release API, specifically the Get a Release endpoint, to allow you to leverage GitHub Actions to get releases.

Usage

Pre-requisites

Create a workflow .yml file in your .github/workflows directory. An example workflow is available below. My yj project uses this Action, see release.yml. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file.

This Action requires that the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN be set correctly.

Outputs

For more information on these outputs, see the API Documentation for an example of what these outputs look like

id: The release ID
html_url: The URL users can navigate to in order to view the release. For example https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/releases/v1.0.0
upload_url: The URL for uploading assets to the release, which could be used by GitHub Actions for additional uses, for example the @actions/upload-release-asset GitHub Action
tag_name: The git tag associated with the release. For example: v1.1.0

Example workflow

Everytime a new release is created, build a binary for the release and upload it to the release on Github. This example is building and uploading a Linux binary for a Rust executable.

on:
  release:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build release binary
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Get release
        id: get_release
        uses: bruceadams/get-release@v1.2.2
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

      - name: Build binary
        run: cargo build --release --verbose

      - name: Upload release binary
        uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.2
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        with:
          upload_url: ${{ steps.get_release.outputs.upload_url }}
          asset_path: ./target/release/my-widget
          asset_name: my-widget
          asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

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