This GitHub action posts a new article on DEV whenever a new release has been published on GitHub.
To use the action, Inside your .github/workflows/dev.yml file put the below code:
on:
release:
types: [published]
jobs:
hello_world_job:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: A job to post a article on DEV
steps:
# To use this repository's private action,
# you must check out the repository
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Publish Release Update on DEV
uses: sheikh005/[email protected] # Uses an action in the root directory
id: publish
with:
dev-to-secret: ${{ secrets.DEV_TO_TOKEN }}
tags: "news,opensource,github" # Comma separted list of tags
- name: Get the URL of the post
run: echo "The URL of the POST is <${{ steps.publish.outputs.url }}>"| Input | Description |
|---|---|
dev-to-secret |
Used to authorize request to dev.to |
tags |
Tags to associate with the post |
The action returns a output url, which is the URL for the created post on dev.
The code of this aciton released under the MIT License.