This project provides a GitHub Action to generate a secure API key.

• Generate a secure API key
• Mask the key in the logs
• Set the key as an output

• Python 3.11+
• secrets library

- name: Generate API Key
  uses: <your_github_handle>/generate-api-key@v1.0
  with:
    KEY_LENGTH: <length_of_the_key>

where

KEY_LENGTH is the length of the API key to be generated. Optional. Defaults to 32.

To view the generated key, you can access the output from the previous step or job.

1. GitHub Actions Documentation
2. Python secrets Library