Awesome Actions

A curated list of awesome things related to GitHub Actions.

Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows either on Linux, Windows or macOS virtual machines or inside a container in response. With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production.

Contents

• Official Resources


• Workflow Examples


• Official Actions


• Create your Actions


• Community Resources


• GitHub Tools and Management


• Collection of Actions


• Utility


• Static Analysis


• Dynamic Analysis


• Monitoring


• Pull Requests


• GitHub Pages


• Notifications and Messages


• Deployment


• External Services


• Frontend Tools


• Machine Learning Ops


• Build


• Database


• Localization


• Cheat Sheet


• Tutorials

Official Resources

• Official Site


• Official Documentation


• Official Actions organization


• actions/virtual-environments - GitHub Actions virtual environments.


• actions/runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions.


• GitHub Blog Announcement

Workflow Examples

• actions/starter-workflows - Starter workflow management.


• actions/example-services - Example workflows using service containers.

Official Actions

Workflow Tool Actions

Tool actions for your workflow.

• actions/checkout - Setup your repository on your workflow.


• actions/upload-artifact - Upload artifacts from your workflow.


• actions/download-artifact - Download artifacts from your build.


• actions/cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions.


• actions/github-script - Write a script for GitHub API and the workflow contexts.

Actions for GitHub Automation

Automate management for issues, pull requests, and releases.

• actions/create-release - An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API.


• actions/upload-release-asset - An Action to upload a release asset via the GitHub Release API.


• actions/first-interaction - An action for filtering pull requests and issues from first-time contributors.


• actions/stale - Marks issues and pull requests that have not had recent interaction.


• actions/labeler - An action for automatically labelling pull requests.


• actions/delete-package-versions - Delete versions of a package from GitHub Packages.

Setup Actions

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of your programming languages.

• actions/setup-node: Node.js


• actions/setup-python: Python


• actions/setup-go: Go


• actions/setup-dotnet: .NET core sdk


• actions/setup-haskell: Haskell (GHC and Cabal)


• actions/setup-java: Java


• actions/setup-ruby: Ruby


• actions/setup-elixir: Elixir

Create your Actions
JavaScript and TypeScript Actions

• actions/toolkit - The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.


• actions/hello-world-javascript-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a JavaScript action.


• actions/javascript-action - Create a JavaScript Action.


• actions/typescript-action - Create a TypeScript Action.


• actions/http-client - A lightweight HTTP client optimized for use with actions, TypeScript with generics and async await.

Docker Container Actions

• actions/hello-world-docker-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a Docker action.


• actions/container-toolkit-action - Template repo for creating container actions using actions/toolkit.

Community Resources
GitHub Tools and Management

• Declaratively setup GitHub Labels


• Action to sync GitHub labels in the declarative way


• Add releases to GitHub


• Publish a docker image to Dockerhub


• Create an issue using content from a file


• Publish GitHub Releases with Assets


• GitHub Project Automation+ - Automate GitHub Project cards with any webhook event.


• Run GitHub Actions Locally with a web interface


• Run GitHub Actions Locally in Terminal


• Build and Publish Android debug APK


• Generate sequential build numbers for GitHub Actions


• Push Git changes to GitHub repository without authentication difficulties


• Generate release notes based on your events


• Create a GitHub wiki page based on the provided markdown file


• Label your Pull Requests auto-magically (using committed files)


• Add Label to your Pull Requests based on the author team name


• Get a list of file changes with PR/Push


• Use private actions in any workflow


• Label Your Issues Using the Issue's Contents


• Rollback a GitHub Release


• Lock Closed Issues and Pull Requests after a Period of Inactivity


• Get Commit Difference Count Between Two Branches


• Generate Release Notes Based on Git References


• Enforce Policies on GitHub Repositories and Commits


• Auto Label Issue Based on Issue Description


• Update Configured GitHub Actions to the Latest Versions


• Create Issue Branch


• Remove Old Artifacts


• Expose Git Commit Data As Environment Variables


• Sync Defined Files/Binaries to Wiki or External Repositories


• Create/Update/Delete a GitHub Wiki Page Based on Any File


• Prow GitHub Actions - Automation of policy enforcement, chat-ops, and automatic PR merging.


• Check GitHub Status in your Workflow


• Manage Labels on GitHub (create/rename/update/delete) as Code


• Continuous Distribution of Funding to your Project Contributors and Dependencies


• Herald Rules for GitHub: Add Subscribers, Assignees, Labels, and More to Your PR


• GitHub Codeowners Validator - Ensures the correctness of your GitHub CODEOWNERS file. It supports public and private GitHub repositories and also GitHub Enterprise installations.


• Copybara Action - Move and transform code between repositories (ideal to maintain several repos from one monorepo).

Collection of Actions

• Use HashiCorp's Terraform


• GitHub Actions for Yarn 1


• GitHub Actions for Yarn 2


• GitHub Actions for Golang


• GitHub Actions for R and accompanying #rstats package


• GitHub Actions for WordPress


• GitHub Actions for Composer


• GitHub Actions for Flutter


• GitHub Actions for PHP


• GitHub Actions for Rust


• GitHub Actions for Android


• GitHub Actions for Logtalk and Prolog


• GitHub Actions for Deno


• GitHub Actions for Unity


• Octions - GitHub Actions for GitHub REST API


• GitHub Actions for Docker


• GitHub Actions for AWS


• Actions Hub

Utility

• Setup ssh-agent - Run ssh-agent with additional SSH keys to access private repositories.


• GitHub Actions Badges for your README


• GitHub Actions for Python project with poetry


• GitHub Actions for Python project with pyenv


• GitHub Actions to compile LaTeX documents


• Update Maxmind Databases


• Debug with SSH over tmate - Debug the Action directly by providing a SSH connection.


• Unlock git-crypt files


• Golang CGO cross compiler


• Run your job on another architecture: arm32, aarch64 and others


• Generate a table of contents


• Automatically add Label or Assignee to an Issue


• Action to send LGTM reaction as image or GIF when we say lgtm


• Generate build numbers across multiple scopes


• Publish GitHub release artifacts


• Jekyll Diff Action - Diffs the built Jekyll site after a change, and comments the result back to GitHub.


• Branch Protection Bot - Temporarily disable and re-enable "Include administrators" option in branch protection.


• Wait for commit statuses - Wait until all statuses and checks are successful or any of them has failed and set its status output accordingly.


• Get Latest Tag - Get the previous tag from git.


• Create Milestone - Create a new open milestone given the title and description.


• Close Milestone - Close the given milestone.


• Action to enforce branch naming rules


• Expose slug of some GitHub variables


• awesome-lint as a GitHub Action


• Edit JSON File


• Build Slate documentation


• Read Properties - Read values from .properties files.


• Write Properties - Write values to .properties files.


• Autotag - Automatically generate a new tag when the manifest file (i.e. package.json) version changes.


• Apply templates with Jinja2 - Use the Jinja2 template engine to generate files from templates.


• Has Changes - Check if there are code changes from previous steps.


• Mind Your Language Action - Detect offensive comments in issues and pull requests, and warn senders.


• YAML/JSON/XML Converter - Converts YAML/JSON/XML file formats interchangeably.


• NSFW Detection - Detect NSFW content in committed files.


• Has Changed Path - Conditionally run actions based on changed paths.


• Linguist - Checks a repository and produces information about used languages in output.


• Twilio Voice Call - Make Twilio voice call with defined text.


• Setup Xcode - Switch between pre-installed versions of Xcode for macOS images.


• Setup Xamarin - Switch between pre-installed versions of Xamarin and Mono for macOS images.


• Memer Action - A GitHub Action for Programmer Memes xD.


• Setup Cocoapods - Setup specific version of Cocoapods.


• Public IP - Queries GitHub actions runner's public IP address.


• GitHub Actions for Lazarus/FPC


• Twilio Fax - Sends a document by fax using your Twilio account.


• Setup Kubernetes tools - Install Kubernetes tools (kubectl, kustomize, helm, kubeval, conftest, and yq) on the runner.


• Setup Elastic Cloud Control Tool - Install a specific version of ecctl on the runner.


• PowerShell Script - Run PowerShell scripts with workflow contexts (e.g. $github.token) and cmdlets, return value => action output.


• Upload and Scan Files with VirusTotal


• Import a GPG Key


• Compress with UPX - The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables.


• Pull the New Go Module Version Into the Proxy Cache - Ensures the latest version of your Go module is in the proxy cache. Also updates the pkg.go.dev documentation upon release.


• Delete Run Artifacts - Deletes all artifacts at the end of a workflow run.


• GitHub Environment Variables Action - Expose environment variables such as the branch/tag name, repository slug, and ref slug.


• GitHub Action Locks - Guarantee atomic execution of your GitHub Action workflows.


• Paths Filter - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits.


• Minisauras - Pulls all the JavaScript and CSS files from your base branch, minify them and creates a pull-request with a new branch.

Environments

• Create an envfile


• Export global environment variables for succeeding build steps


• Programmatically set environment variables for use in subsequent steps


• Install Conda environments for Python


• Setup NativeScript


• Create a JSON Environment File

Dependencies

• Install NPM Dependencies with Caching


• Highlight New NPM Dependencies - Comments on pull requests newly added NPM dependencies information.


• Cache NPM Dependencies


• Cache Yarn Dependencies

Semantic Versioning

• Next SemVers - Output the next version for major, minor, and patch version based on the given semver version.


• Get latest SemVer and branch name given a search string


• Cut Release Branch - Cuts a release branch given a branch prefix and optional semantic version.


• Increment Semantic Version - Bump a given semantic version (SemVer), depending on given release type.

Static Analysis

• PHPStan Static code analyzer Action


• GraphQL Inspector Action


• PowerShell static analysis with PSScriptAnalyzer


• Run tfsec, with reviewdog output on the PR

Testing

• Run Tests through Puppeteer, the Headless Chrome Node API


• xUnit Slack Reporter: Sends summary of tests from xUnit reports to a Slack channel


• Run codeception tests


• Run TestCafe tests


• Run Unity tests


• Run Cypress E2E tests


• Test Ansible roles with Molecule


• Run performance testing with artillery.io


• Detect Flaky Tests with BuildPulse


• Display Inline Code Annotations for Jest Tests

Linting

• PHP Coding Standards Fixer Action


• Runs Hadolint against a Dockerfile within a repository


• Run ESLint, with reviewdog output on the PR


• JavaScript-based linter for *.workflow files


• Lint terraform files using tflint, with reviewdog output on the PR


• autopep8: Automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide


• Run ergebnis/composer-normalize to ensure your PHP project has a normalized composer.json


• Run Go lint checks on PR event


• Node.js - Automatically run the format and/or lint script used by the package


• Stylelinter - GitHub Action that runs stylelint


• Run stylelint, with reviewdog output on the PR


• PyCodeStyle Action - A GitHub Action that leaves a comment on your PR with pycodestyle (autopep8) feedback


• wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever, with optional reviewdog output on the PR


• Run TSLint with status checks and file diff annotations


• Lint Pull Request commits with commitlint


• Run vint, with reviewdog output on the PR


• Run mispell, with reviewdog output on the PR


• Run golangci-lint, with reviewdog output on the PR


• Run shellcheck, with reviewdog output on the PR


• Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing in your markdown docs


• Run dotenv-linter - Lints your .env files like a charm, with optional reviewdog output on the PR


• Run dotenv-linter, with reviewdog output on the PR


• Show and auto-fix linting errors for many programming languages


• PHP_CodeSniffer With Annotations


• Linter for markdown (with presets)


• Stylelint problem matcher to create annotations


• Run sqlcheck on the PR to identifies anti-patterns in SQL queries


• Validate Fastlane Supply Metadata Against the Play Store Guidelines


• Run Golint to lint your Golang code

Security

• A vulnerability scanner for your docker images


• Automatically approve and merge Dependabot updates


• Run dlint security linter on your Python code


• AWS Secrets Manager Actions - Define AWS Secrets Manager secrets to environment values.


• Linting your AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and security issues


• Secret Spreader - Not an action per se, but a tool to manage Actions Secrets across a list of repositories.


• Secrets Sync Action - Action syncs secrets across multiple repositories.


• Snyk Test Action


• Manage Your GitHub Actions Secrets With A Simple CLI


• SecretHub - Have a single source of truth for your secrets and load them into GitHub Actions on demand.

Code Coverage

• Scan code with SonarCloud


• Send your code coverage to codecov.io


• Publishing code coverage to CodeClimate


• Update repository go report card

Dynamic Analysis

• Run Goimports to check Golang imports order

Monitoring

• Audit a webpage with Google Chrome's Lighthouse tests


• Runs Lighthouse and posts results to PRs and Slack


• Run Lighthouse in CI using GitHub Actions


• Continuous Benchmarking and Benchmark Visualization for Go


• Size Limit Action - Comments cost comparison of your JS in PRs and rejects them if limit is exceeded.


• Check bundlephobia - Comments new and modified package size according to bundlephobia.io website and rejects PR on threshold surpassed.

Pull Requests

• Set PR Reviewers Based on Assignees


• Open or Update PR on Branch Push (with Branch Selection)


• Automatically Rebase a PR


• Label PR once it has a Specified Number of Approvals


• Add Labels to a PR based on Matched File Patterns


• Auto-Approve PRs


• Automatically add Reviewers to PR based on the Configuration File


• Add Labels to a PR based on Branch Name Patterns


• Add Labels to a PR based on Total Size of the Diff


• Automatically merge PRs That Are Ready


• Verify That PRs Contain a Ticket Reference


• Create a PR for Changes to your Repository in the Actions Workspace


• Lint a PR


• ChatOps for PRs


• Prefix Title and Body of a PR Based on Text Extracted from Branch Name


• Block Autosquash Commits


• Automatically Bump and Tag on Merge


• Automatically Update PRs with Outdated Checks and Squash and Merge the Ones Matching All Branch Protections


• Merge Pal - Automatically Update and Merge PRs


• Enforce naming convention on pull request title


• Pull Request Stuck Notifier


• Lint pull request name with commitlint (Awesome if you squash merge !)


• Block PR merges when Checks for target branches are failing


• Get generated static site screenshots updated by Pull Request


• Add Labels Depending if the Pull Request Still in Progress


• Ticket Check Action - Automatically add a ticket or issue number to the start of all Pull Request titles.


• Pull Request Lint With Regex


• Pull Request Landmines


• Annotate a GitHub Pull Request Based on a Checkstyle XML-Report


• Pull Request Stats - Print relevant stats about reviewers.


• Pull Request Description Enforcer - Enforces description on pull requests.

GitHub Pages

• Deploy a Zola site to GitHub Pages


• Build Hugo static content site and publish it to gh-pages branch


• Build a Jekyll site—with Custom Jekyll Plugins & Build Scripts—and deploy it back to the Gh-Pages Branch


• Google Dataset Search Metadata - And other schema.org extractors to make datasets discoverable from GitHub pages.


• GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators


• GitHub Action for Hexo


• Deploy Google Analytics stats to GitHub Pages


• A Jupyter Notebook Blogging Platform Powered by GitHub Actions, Pages and Jekyll


• Deploy A Static Site to GitHub Pages - Deploy to custom directory and ignore folder/file.


• Deploy to GitHub Pages with Advanced Settings

Notifications and Messages

• Send a Discord notification


• Post a Slack message as a bot


• Send an SMS from GitHub Actions using Nexmo


• Send an SMS from GitHub Actions using Clockworksms


• Send a Telegram Message


• Send a File or Text Message to Discord (custom define color, username or avatar)


• Collaborate on tweets using pull requests


• Send a Push Notification via Push by Techulus


• Send email with SendGrid


• Send a Push Notification via Join


• New package version checker for npm


• New package version checker for NuGet


• New package version checker for Gradle


• Send a Push Notification via Pushbullet


• Create an Outlook Calendar Event using Microsoft Graph


• Watch for GitHub Wiki page changes and post to Slack


• Send an SMS using MessageBird


• Reply to Stale Bots


• Send an Embed Message to Discord


• Keep Your PRs in Sync With Teamwork Tasks


• Send Microsoft Teams Notification

Deployment

• Deploy to Netlify


• Deploy a Probot App using Actions


• Deploy a playlist to Spotify


• Deploy VS Code extensions with vsce


• Purge Cloudflare cache after updating a website


• Deploy your DNS configuration using DNS Control


• Deploy a Theme to Shopify


• Trigger multiple GitLab CI Pipeline


• Trigger multiple Jenkins Jobs


• GitHub Action for Homebrew Tap


• Copy files and artifacts via SSH


• Executing remote ssh commands


• Publish a Python distribution package to PyPI


• Deploy Static Website to Azure Storage


• Cross platform Chocolatey CLI to build and publish packages


• Deploy iOS Pod Library to Cocoapods


• GitHub Action for TencentCloud Serverless


• Publish npm (pre)releases


• Deploy a static site to Surge.sh


• GitHub Action for GoReleaser, a release automation tool for Go projects


• FTP Deploy Action, Deploys a GitHub project to a FTP server using GitHub actions


• Publish Article to Dev.to


• Action For Semantic Release


• Deploy a Collection to Ansible Galaxy


• Publish module to Puppet Forge


• Build and publish Electron apps


• Publish a Maven package


• Build and deploy a theme to Ghost CMS


• Deploy an Ansible role to Ansible Galaxy


• Publish one or more JS modules to a registry


• Publish a package with 2FA using Slack


• Serialize Workflow Runs in Continuous Deployment Pipelines


• Netlify Deploy GitHub Action for each commit


• Run Ansible Playbooks


• Publish a Python Distribution Package to Anaconda Cloud


• Deploy VS Code Extension to Visual Studio Marketplace or the Open VSX Registry


• Deploy a YouTube Video to Anchor.fm Podcast

Docker

• Update a Docker Hub repository description from README.md


• Publish Docker Images to the GitHub Package Registry (GPR)


• Update a repository's "Full description" on Docker Hub


• Build and publish docker images to any registry using Kaniko


• Monitor and limit your docker image size


• Publish Docker Images to the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)


• Build And Push Your Docker Images Caching Each Stage To Reduce Build Time


• Set up Docker Buildx


• Convert Branch or Tag Name Into Docker-Compatible Image Tag


• Update a Container Repository Description From README.md - Supported Registries: Docker Hub, Quay, Harbor.

Kubernetes

• Deploy to any Cloud or Kubernetes Using Pulumi


• Deploy to Kubernetes with kubectl


• Get Kubeconfig File From Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)


• Kustomize Kubernetes Config YAMLs


• Create a Kubernetes Cluster for Testing Using Krucible

AWS

• Sync/upload a directory to an AWS S3 bucket


• Deploy Lambda code to an existing function

Terraform

• Generate terraform documentation - Uses terraform-docs to generate docs for terraform modules.


• An example of using Terraform to validate and apply GitHub administration

External Services

• Use a Jenkinsfile


• GitHub Action for Firebase


• GitHub Action for Contentful Migration CLI


• GitHub Actions for Pixela (a-know/pi)


• GitHub Action for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)


• Upload files to any OpenStack Swift service provider


• GitHub Action for sending Stack Overflow posts to Slack


• Assume AWS role


• Generate Custom Response using JSONbin

Frontend Tools

• Execute Gradle task


• JS Build Actions - Run Grunt or Gulp build tasks and commit file changes.


• GitHub Action for Gatsby CLI


• Runs a WebPageTest audit and prints the results as commit comment


• GitHub Actions for Hugo extended


• Generate OG Image - Generate customisable open graph images from Markdown files.


• GitHub Actions for mdBook


• Setup Mint - Setup Mint (programming language for writing single page applications).


• Gatsby AWS S3 Deployment - Deploy Gatsby to S3 (supports CloudFront).

Machine Learning Ops

• Submitting Argo Workflows (Cloud Agnostic)


• Submitting Argo Workflows to GKE


• Query Experiment Tracking Results From Weights & Biases


• Run Parameterized Jupyter Notebooks


• Compile, Deploy and Run Kubeflow Pipeline


• Automatically Dockerize A Data-Science Repo As A Jupyter Server


• Azure Machine Learning With GitHub Actions

Build

• run-cmake - Multi platform action to build C/C++ software with CMake and Ninja.


• run-vcpkg - Multi platform action to build and install C/C++ dependencies with vcpkg.


• Build Go applications for multiplatform


• Generate ~/.m2/settings.xml for Maven builds


• Run Pascal Script


• Setup Brainfuck - Setup brainfuck interpreter.


• Publish Go Binaries to GitHub Release Assets


• Setup COBOL

Database

• Setup Cassandra Schema - Running scripts from the provided folder on top of Cassandra cluster.

Localization

• Find and automatically fix typos and grammar issues in your code


• Translation - Translate text from any language to any language.

Cheat Sheet

• GitHub Actions Branding Cheat Sheet

Tutorials

• Continuous deployment of Next.js app with Up


• Converting Docker-based Actions to JavaScript/TypeScript


• GitHub Actions CI for Swift/iOS Projects


• Working with GitHub Actions


• GitHub Actions for Rails Developers


• GitHub Actions Advent Calendar


• Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions


• Building Custom GitHub Actions Pluralsight Course


• Continuously Deploying Django to DigitalOcean with Docker and GitHub Actions


• Deploying Self-Hosted GitHub Actions Runners with Docker - Deploy self-hosted GitHub Actions runners with Docker and Docker Swarm to DigitalOcean.


• Setup Auto-scaled self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners on AWS Spot-instances


• Getting the Gist of GitHub Actions

Please don't hesitate to make a PR if you have more resources to share. Check out contributing.md for more information.

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