E1 - GitHub Actions: Write your first workflow with GitHub APIs || Beginner friendly tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- This is the first video of the series: "GitHub Actions: Full Course" and in this one you'll get your hands dirty with building your first workflow and learning all the fundamentals of working with GitHub Actions.
We will cover how the internals of GitHub Actions, workflow syntax, jobs, steps, functions, conditionals, community actions, log viewer, and I will be showing you step by step how you can use GitHub Actions to call GitHub's REST APIs to automate certain tasks!
▬▬▬▬▬▬ Resources & References 📕 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
- GitHub Actions documentation: docs.github.com/en/actions
- Create or update comment Action: github.com/marketplace/action...
- Create an issue comment API: docs.github.com/en/rest/refer...
▬▬▬▬▬▬ Timestamps 🕐 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
02:17 - Overview of GitHub Actions
05:15 - Workflow syntax
18:11 - GitHub web editor & syntax validation
20:10 - Building the issue comments workflow
23:53 - Using a community action
26:08 - Using GitHub REST APIs in workflows
30:47 - Conclusion
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really thankful, it is really helpful to a graduate who really want some hands-on experience in real industry
if you are getting the following error when you run these aciton codes; Resource not accessible by integration. Following these steps may solve the problem.
1- Go to repository "Settings".
2- After that it will show you a left pane where you will find "Actions"
3- Expand "Actions" tab
4- Click on "General" under options tab.
5- Now on new page scroll down and you will fine "Workflow Permissions"
6- Select "Read and Write" under "Workflow Permissions".
Very nice, thank you!
welcome bro. @@vinceb8041
Another way of doing this is to provide explit write permission to the job for issue in the yaml file. For some reason, evern after changing the repository from public to private and back, the "Read and Write" under "Workflow Permissions" was disabled for me. Hence the "Create comment on Issue" workflow was failing for me. After reading the README, I figured that it has to do with the GITHUB_TOKEN permissions. I checked it in the "Setup Job" output and figured that, GITHUB_TOKEN has only read permission. I tried to change it in setting but did not work as it is always greyed out for me (though I am the owner of the org as well as repository). On further reading I figured out that permissions can be controlled in a fine-grained manner in the yaml file itself. I tried it out and it worked.
This was very well articulated and packed with information. Crystal clear.Thank you!
I actually appreciate you getting deeper into it!
just awesome man! Great job
Awesome job here - really appreciate it. You're a wonderful instructor.
Been waiting for this series
Thank you Bassem!
I hope it will not disappoint! Thank you for your support Anthony
Your intro music really motivated me. This is the first time I was so excited for a coding video.
Whiteboarding is really good before starting topic discussion. Missed by many other well renowned content creators, Kudos to that.
This video was brilliant and so well presented - thank you so much :)
Love your video. Thanks
that's awesome..!
WoW! Thank U!
this video is so good, thank you
Nice playlist and videos! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for your support ❤️
Yooooo! The intro!! get hook!
👍Very nice explanation, Greeting from Haifa
Aug 2023 - for me worked v2 for comment + added permissions: write-all
Been browsing through Udemy courses, but this one is just way better. Fast and clear, good simple examples!
I think I should subscribe, thanks a lot for this in depth information
I'm glad this was helpful :)
Thanks Bassem!
I think this will be a great and very useful series.
I really would like to learn how we can run a single job if it failed, instead of running the whole thing from scratch. Of course if that is possible, and if it is not possible, why not?🤔.
And really thanks for sharing the knowledge
Unfortunately that’s a feature that’s not available at the moment. I’m sure it will come at some point in the future!
great video. learnt a lot.
Happy to hear that 🙇♂️
Nice intro!
Thanks Man!
❤️❤️ thank you!!
If someone gets " Resource not accessible by integration! " error when using auto-generating comment, it means your permissions are not right. You can add in comments-with-action: permissions: write-all
I was about to post this. Glad you got it.
Thank you! When these videos were made GITHUB_TOKEN permissions had shipped slightly earlier and was not being enforced yet. This series needs an update 😔
Thanks a lot, Bassem. It's very information dense.
I laughed when I saw you testing it with: LAST LAST LAST/ LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST/ Really Last.
😄 as it will be in the real world
Thank you Bassem! :) notif on :D
comment with api failed because of ${ISSUE_NUMBER} was missing the closing } in curl? or something else?
Good eye! Yes, it was the closing } and in fact there were 4 other mistakes in that same curl command! If you compare the before and after you'll see them. I fast-forwarded because I didn't think anyone would be interested in the troubleshooting (it took a while)
I have a question (I just went through the video again)
for the first workflow action 14:52
was it necessary to use checkout action? will it work if we didn't used it?
For this particular workflow, a checkout of the repository is not necessary!
looking at the gist... ah, yeah, I was wondering if the organisation/organization thing was going to be a problem. Hooray, English! =D
Would have wanted to know what caused the error and how you resolved it in the end. Specially for people like me who like to code along :)
Thank you for the video, psyched for the rest of the videos in the series too!
In the api call he had /repo/ when it should have been /repos/ and he missed the } after ISSUE_NUMBER
Amazing explanation! I'm pretty sure that I will learn a lot here. Just one comment, I think could be interesting know the issue and how to solve it :)
I agree :) you can spot it if you compare the working code with the broken one, check the pinned comment for hints
I’m new to GitHub actions Had some questions: 1. I want to automate the CI process where the tool I use is connected to the GitHub and there are 2 dbs After a developer pushes to one db, the second db should have the capability to pull the resources that were pushed in the first db. The tool (hosted on aws) provides a .sh file which triggers the pull for the second db. How can I connect to the aws instance from GitHub using actions and point to the aws folder and make use of the .sh file to trigger the pull. Looking forward to your expertise. Thanks a lot
Hi Shuchi, you workflow jobs will run on runners with an operating system, right? So start by thinking of how you would solve this problem on your own machine, then you can split the solution into 1 or more jobs and 1 or more steps! Start with a simple step that runs a bash or powershell script that does all of the work that you'd want to do, then explore other more abstracted options (like finding actions in the market you could use to do one thing or another).
Very good video, in my opinion you sometimes zoom a little too much on the buttons you are trying to explain. But that is just a personal opinion. Keep the good work!
Thank you,
Which terminal do you use?
iTerm2 and fish shell
1. Full course playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLArH6NjfKsUhvGHrpag7SuPumMzQRhUKY
2. This is the gist (contains updates) with the working code from the demo:
gist.github.com/Link-/f817f7523a3ac5de6861efd7be6bc3fb
3. This demo is designed to work for repositories owned by organizations. If you create a repository owned by your GitHub profile it will not work and you will get errors. I encourage you to create a GitHub organization for free and a public repository in that organization to test.
Fantastic course and content!! BTW, how to run the github api without organization (personal account). I am looking for correct URL?
Just replace organisation with your username and it should work.
docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment
How to write a workflow to change a latex to pdf on github?
Um what did you fix at the end there? For some reason my video keeps fast forwarding? I'm also getting the error you were getting but cannot see how to fix it?
Check the pinned comment
Why wouldn't you show how you debugged the error? When someone is following along it is rather frustrating to see a time-lapse and "magic" it works. At least tell us what you did to fix the errors. I caught a few of them but keep getting a "You have an error in your yaml syntax on line 31". Thanks for taking the time to put something like this together though.
You're right, my apologies for that. I'll make sure to avoid this in future videos. Here is a gist with the code that should be working: gist.github.com/Link-/f817f7523a3ac5de6861efd7be6bc3fb
@@glich.stream Thank you, much appreciated!
27:33 Missed closing the curly brace, hence it didn't work.
go to, setting> in sidebar, actions:general>scroll to down, Workflow permissions> click on, Read and write permissions> save, now your issue part will be resolved(error in step).
Thank you Bassem.
I am getting a strange error for the last part "gh: Not Found (HTTP 404)". even when I took your exact file as is. Any idea what may be the issue?
Hey Dina, this demo was designed for repositories within organizations. If you're trying this out on a repository owned by your personal GitHub profile you will get the errors you're seeing.
Try to create a GitHub organization (it's free) and create a repository in the organization and then test again.
@@glich.stream Thanks a lot Bassem. It works now.
@@glich.stream hi, I have the same issue. I created an organization, but the error is still the same. can you cooment why?
Why am i not understanding this video 😢? Im beginner actually.. so what pre-requisites needed for me to understand github actions?
Hey Bassem million thanks for this awesome content, can you please share your ~/.vimrc setup please ?
can be in jobs test run more than "npm run ..." sir?
Of course
how to properly format yaml, i was struggling with vim, no proper formatting
For VScode GitHub has published a GitHub actions extension that does linting, you can then install any yaml formatter and you’re good.
How do i make a comment on issue with file attached
AFAIK The API does not support uploading attachments to issue
What is the purpose of the caracter " - " ?
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: hello world
run: echo "Hello World"
shell: bash
Why is "name" preceded by " - " and "run" isn't?
What are prerequisites?
For following along? You should be familiar with GitHub and have built a couple of applications before. That’s it :)
What keyboard are you using? Sounds looks so much awesome I want ititttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Keychron K6 with cherry brown switches. Quite affordable and good
Also, this is all the gear i use:
ruclips.net/video/BGCbI-SKQio/видео.html
@@glich.stream Thanks I will look into it.
27:33 Missed closing the curly brace, hence it didn't work.
There were a number of issues, check the pinned comment for the gist containing the correct workflow
The effort you put in this video is effortless ❤
Wait what! 😂
Why did the final action fail?
Read the pinned comment
How did this guy go from hello world to creating comment?
Good video but towards the end pretty sure most of us had errors with the API side but skipped on your process on how you fixed it. that's not really nice
This was my first video, ever 😄 the point of it was to be a walkthrough of Actions not a follow-along. Check the comments above for the corrected code
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@@glich.stream hello from chtaura!
@@arwamais 👋👋
So when you had an issue, you fast-forwarded the lesson.🤕
Getting error with Create Comment,, resource inaccessible .... wasted few hours debugging. when you don't take time to anticipate why could wrong with your tutorial it becomes a waste of time of a learner. Please address issues with applying what you are sharing here. Thanks
Thank you for the feedback. Thousands of folks have completed this tutorial successfully (which was not designed to be a follow along). I bet you didn’t pay attention to the pinned comment above.
@@glich.stream I created repo in an org and kept it public and using the exact same code
Still facing error 😭😭
Dk how to fix it ;-;