GitHub Action - Releases API

Please note: This is just to fix the original action for my specific use cases. Feel free to use it as you wish or open an issue if you want/need additional behaviors.

If you want to make a pr be careful that it's not going to the original repo.

This is meant to act as almost a direct replacement for the original that can take multiple files.

If you are having any troubles, you can enable additional logs and info by setting ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG to true in your secretes

This GitHub Action (written in JavaScript) wraps the GitHub Release API, specifically the Upload a Release Asset endpoint, to allow you to leverage GitHub Actions to upload release assets.

Usage

Pre-requisites

Create a workflow .yml file in your repositories .github/workflows directory. An example workflow is available below. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file. You also will need to have a release to upload your asset to.

Inputs

For more information on these inputs, see the API Documentation

• upload_url: The URL for uploading assets to the release, which could come from the release trigger (${{ github.event.release.upload_url }})
• asset_path can now take wildcards as well as an array of paths. Uses @actions/glob so the same as actions/upload-artifact
• asset_name Will be ignored if there are multiple files
• asset_content_type is now optional

Outputs

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

• browser_download_url: An array of URLs users can navigate to in order to download the release assets. i.e. https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/releases/download/v1.0.0/example.zip

Example workflow - upload a release asset

On every release which was published upload a release asset.

If you want to create a release and upload artifacts to this release this action may fit better to you: softprops/action-gh-release

on:
  release:
    types:
      - published

name: Upload Release Asset

jobs:
  build:
    name: Upload Release Asset
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Build project # This would actually build your project, using zip for an example artifact
        run: |
          zip --junk-paths my-artifact README.md
      - name: Upload Release Asset
        id: upload-release-asset
        uses: maexled/upload-release-assets@v1.2.0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
          asset_path: ./my-artifact.zip
          asset_name: my-artifact.zip
          asset_content_type: application/zip

This will upload a release artifact to an existing release, outputting the browser_download_url for the asset which could be handled by a third party service, or by GitHub Actions for additional uses. For more information, see the GitHub Documentation for the upload a release asset endpoint.

Contributing

We would love you to contribute to maexled/upload-release-assets, pull requests are welcome! Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the original repository, sekwah41/upload-release-assets, from which this project was forked.

In this forked version, I have updated the dependencies, including the upgrade of @actions/core to version 1.10.0. This update addresses the deprecation message related to the set-output command, which will be disabled soon. For more information, please refer to the GitHub Blog Changelog.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License