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Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna

Reputation: 4382

Trigger a workflow of another repository and get the artifacts

I have a private GitHub repository named "Test Repo" under an organization. The repository has an action that performs a workflow and uploads an artifact (HTML). I have ten more private repositories named "Dev Repos" under the same organization.

Is there a way where the below steps could happen whenever there is a push in any of the "Dev Repos"?

Note: It'll be nice to use native approaches rather than 3rd party plugins :)

EDIT I

Below is the native approach to trigger the workflow of the "Test Repo" from the "Dev Repos".

name: CI
on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]

  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Trigger Test Repo workflow
        run: |
          response = $(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" --request POST --data '{"ref": "main"}' https://api.github.com/repos/{{organization}}/{{repository}}/actions/workflows/{{workflow-file}}.yml/dispatches)

However, the external actions (including the ones suggested by @VonC) do not trigger any action from the "Dev Repos" to the "Test Repo". The actions do not even show any error in the "Dev Repos". They just appear as successful.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7496

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323953

You can try the GitHub Action "Trigger External Workflow" in order to triggers a workflow from another repository using repository_dispatch event.

on: [push, workflow_dispatch]
jobs:
  trigger:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "📦 Trigger Project Test"
    steps:
    - uses: passeidireto/trigger-external-workflow-action@main
      env:
        PAYLOAD_AUTHOR: ${{ github.author }}
        PAYLOAD_REVISION: "3"
      with:
        repository: my-org/my-repo
        event: doc_update
        github_pat: ${{ secrets.pat_with_access }}

Be sure your github_pat has workflow scope on the target repository (Test).

Then you can use action-gh-release in order to release your Tests packages in a Dev repository.
See "How to release built artifacts from one to another repo on GitHub?" from Oyster Lee (also on Stack Overflow)

# workflow.yml
# a lot code at the top
# ...
release:
  steps:
    - name: Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      with:
        repository: ${{ secrets.owner }}/${{ secrets.repo }}
        token: ${{ secrets.CUSTOM_TOKEN }}

Upvotes: 1

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