deno-github-contributions-api VS github-script

It's also possible to use output through the github-script action.

I wrote a custom script to parse PR comments as input commands to interface with Terraform CLI, returning the output as bot comments. Each step of the workflow relies on GitHub Actions, including actions/github-script to interact with GitHub's API (while brushing up on my JavaScript!).

You can generate what to annotate with a few lines of shell and then use gihub-script

Nice idea, worth mentioning other features:

* Reusable workflows (note: matrix strategy doesn't work here): https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-w...

* Composite actions: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating...

* Script as action: https://github.com/actions/github-script

* Using GitHub Packages and artifacts: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/publishing-packages/about...

* Using docker-compose-like services that run alongside of the container: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-containerized-servi...

And many, many more :)

actions/github-script@v5

This workflow makes use of the awesome github-script that makes working with API's a breeze!

GitHub support hasn't been helpful so far. If you use Chrome on Linux, type xfce4-screenshooter or flameshot and grab a screenshot. Then navigate to any issue or PR, for example, https://github.com/actions/github-script/issues/187 and in the comment box at the bottom, type Ctrl-V. Either you'll see your image get uploaded or you won't. You don't need to save nor submit the comment.

Note at the end of the bash, and we are leveraging a curl command to talk directly to the GitHub API. This curl command is meant for simplicity. All of this could have been done using the octokit.rest.js library or better github-script.

In this post, I am going to focus on the API and actions/github-script. This action makes it easy to quickly write a script in your workflow that uses the GitHub API and includes the workflow run context.

My new github action follows a simple workflow: Whenever a user opens a pull request to the repository with the configured workflow, a comment is made on the PR with a greeting to the user and another comment with the statistics about the repository and PR are posted. Used the github-scripts (https://github.com/actions/github-script) action to get the API and context to write my own script in the workflow. It was a very fun exercise for me. Thankyou Dev Team for this cool contest!