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
  • Fun
  • 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 Gofmt to check Golang code formatting
• 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
• Deploy with AWS CodeDeploy

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.

Fun

• Add equivalent of a like button in your README - Visualize community approval on some part of your readme (can be used as a poll).

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.