gist-actions

allows you to interact with github gists

Requirements

create a personal access token with gist scope and add it as env to the job (see in examples)

Inputs

with:

• action defines what you want to do (get,update)
• gist_id id of the gist you want to use
• file_name (optional if used in get action, defaults to 1st file) name of the file you want to get/update
• content (only used with update action) content of the file you want to update

Example

get action

- name: Read gist
  id: gist_content
  uses: gorgbus/gist-actions@main
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
  with:
    action: "get"
    gist_id: "ce9ca1f249b6a703d5f38b3816da0042"
    file_name: "meta.json"
    
- run: echo "meta.json content: ${{ steps.gist_content.outputs.content }}"

update action

- name: Read gist
  id: gist_content
  uses: gorgbus/gist-actions@main
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
  with:
    action: "get"
    gist_id: "ce9ca1f249b6a703d5f38b3816da0042"
    file_name: "meta.json"
    
- name: Change content
  id: new_gist
  uses: gorgbus/edit-json-string@main
  with:
    json_string: ${{ steps.gist_content.outputs.content }}
    field: "version"
    value: "1.1.1"

- name: Update gist
  uses: gorgbus/gist-actions@main
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
  with:
    action: "update"
    gist_id: "ce9ca1f249b6a703d5f38b3816da0042"
    file_name: "meta.json"
    content: ${{ steps.new_gist.outputs.content }}

Output

• steps.gist_content.outputs.content (only used with get action) content of 1st file/selected file