A GitHub Action to send arbitrary requests to GitHub's REST API

Minimal example

Name: Log latest release
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  update_routes:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - uses: octokit/[email protected]
        id: get_latest_release
        with:
          route: GET /repos/:owner/:repo/releases/latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - run: "echo latest release: ${{ steps.get_latest_release.outputs.data }}"

To see additional debug logs, create a secret with the name: ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG and value true.

octokit/request-action is using @octokit/request internally with some additions

1. Requests are authenticated using the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. It is required to prevent rate limiting, as all anonymous requsets from the same origin count against the same low rate.
2. The owner and repo parameters are preset to the repository that the action is run in.

The actions sets data output to the response data. Note that it is a string, you cannot access any keys of the response at this point. The action also sets headers (again, to a JSON string) and status.

MIT