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AAriam
AAriam

Reputation: 407

GitHub CLI from GitHub Actions workflow

According to GitHub Docs, one can use GitHub CLI commands in a workflow.

I am trying to programmatically update the description of the repository from a workflow in that repository, and the only solution I found was using the GitHub CLI:

name: update repo 
on: push
jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions: write-all
    steps:
      - name: 'Checkout repository'
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: 'Update repository description'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: gh repo edit --description "test"

but even with permissions: write-all, I still get the error:

HTTP 403: Resource not accessible by integration

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2210

Answers (1)

withakay
withakay

Reputation: 1033

According to the docs you need to set GH_TOKEN not GITHUB_TOKEN

For example:

name: Comment when opened
on:
  issues:
    types:
      - opened
jobs:
  comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: gh issue comment $ISSUE --body "Thank you for opening this issue!"
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          ISSUE: ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }}

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/using-github-cli-in-workflows

Upvotes: 1

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