Github Actions url to run #25470

judoole · 2018-12-24T11:26:00Z

judoole
Dec 24, 2018

Hi!

I’m trying to create a workflow for deployment, and I’d like to create a deploy status and submit the url to the log of the action that deployed. Very handy if the deply failes I think. Using actions/bin/debug I can’t seem to find any reference to the id of the run or url to the run.

Is there a way to extract this in some way?

Answered by ivailop

Feb 12, 2020

With the new Actions API, there are now $GITHUB_RUN_ID environment variable provided.

Using it, a URL to the workflow could be constructed as follows:

GITHUB_WORKFLOW_URL=https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID

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mcolyer · 2019-01-09T23:44:54Z

mcolyer
Jan 9, 2019

We don’t currently expose that information, however I’ve made a note of this feedback so we can take it into account as we continue to improve actions.

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judoole · 2019-01-10T13:37:33Z

judoole
Jan 10, 2019
Author

Thanks! It would perhaps be great to have it as one of the environment variables. GITHUB_RUN_ID or something along those lines.

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podviaznikov · 2019-03-01T04:41:00Z

podviaznikov
Mar 1, 2019

I have similar use case. Would be nice to have this.

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amirrustam · 2019-08-13T22:24:38Z

amirrustam
Aug 13, 2019

Any updates on this now with the launch of CI/CD support?

Exposing the run ID would be really helpful for supporting parallelization for Cypress users.

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colinjfw · 2019-09-16T14:05:04Z

colinjfw
Sep 16, 2019

I was just trying to solve this problem recently, this is what I ended up with in the mean time to just set the deployment url:

https://github.com/deliverybot/status/blob/master/index.js#L7

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davidjdixon · 2019-10-31T14:47:21Z

davidjdixon
Oct 31, 2019

@mcolyer has there been any movement on this item?

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ivailop · 2019-10-31T16:06:22Z

ivailop
Oct 31, 2019

As requested in https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/Check-Suite-identifier-as-an-environment-variable/m-p/35498#M2240, having GITHUB_CHECK_SUITE_ID would allow provision of such URL as follow:

GITHUB_WORKFLOW_URL=https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/commit/$GITHUB_SHA/checks?check_suite_id=$GITHUB_CHECK_SUITE_ID

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ob1dev · 2019-12-24T23:24:44Z

ob1dev
Dec 24, 2019

Hi @mcolyer

Another example would be, if I want to send a Slack message with a link to my GitHub Actions run in case if it sucessed, failed or canceled, I want a varible that points to:

https://github.com/{account-name}/{repository-name}/commit/{git-sha}/checks?check_suite_id={run-id}

Best Wishes,

Oleg

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ivailop · 2020-02-12T21:19:19Z

ivailop
Feb 12, 2020

With the new Actions API, there are now $GITHUB_RUN_ID environment variable provided.

Using it, a URL to the workflow could be constructed as follows:

GITHUB_WORKFLOW_URL=https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID

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anden-dev Jan 18, 2023

Universal ( with GHE Support)

GITHUB_WORKFLOW_URL=$GITHUB_SERVER_URL/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID

tpak Jan 18, 2023

I assume that @anden-dev's answer works if you are using the API, I just happened to stumble here looking for the same thing and took what @anden-dev proposed and modified it to work in an action job step and it works great. I am able to substitute that string in other steps as needed, I just used echo to demonstrate so anyone can test it.

This works in a workflow action without getting involved with the Actions API

      - name: Echo GHA url 
        run: echo ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
        shell: bash

mloskot Feb 20, 2023

@anden-dev Although it is indeed documented at the bottom of the Default environment variables, FWIW, this technique does not work in the entire workflow env: section. Instead, the one presented by @tpak works:

env:
  BUILD_URL: "${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"

tpak Feb 20, 2023

@mloskot - indeed that is how we are using it in our actions to expose it across steps if necessary (in one sending it to the Slack notify step)

harveyr · 2020-04-22T01:03:05Z

harveyr
Apr 22, 2020

Does that actually work for you? My run IDs are different than the numbers in the URLs. And using the run ID like that results in a 404.

Edit: Aha! I’m wrong. There’s \<repo\>/actions/runs/\<id\> that shows all the jobs and \<repo\>/runs/\<some-other-number\> once you start clicking into jobs. The first one works as you say. My mistake!

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harveyr · 2020-09-18T22:34:05Z

harveyr
Sep 18, 2020

Formatting got weird there—sorry.

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samuela · 2020-09-19T20:54:33Z

samuela
Sep 19, 2020

Does anyone know how to get that URL for the current job in the current run? GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER looks promising but doesn’t seem to be related to the URLs at all.

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dominikfoldi · 2020-10-07T14:20:00Z

dominikfoldi
Oct 7, 2020

Yeah! It would be great to have the id of the current job to be able to construct a link for that too! Currently, this is not possible.

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judoole · 2020-10-09T06:02:55Z

judoole
Oct 9, 2020
Author

I think this should do it @dominikfoldi @samuela
https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID

We are currently using it in our action for updating the deployment status https://github.com/unacast/actions-github-deployment-status/blob/d6be60b7d328f52d8a329119f39add23737be3da/bin/deployment-create-status#L14

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dominikfoldi · 2020-10-09T15:20:30Z

dominikfoldi
Oct 9, 2020

No. That will link to the workflow run which has one or more jobs. The jobs have their own dedicated ids, so they have their own links, too.

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judoole · 2020-10-10T07:14:40Z

judoole
Oct 10, 2020
Author

Ah, sorry. Then I understand. And I don’t know.

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Simran-B · 2020-10-10T22:56:47Z

Simran-B
Oct 10, 2020

The job run IDs don’t seem to be exposed in actions, at least per the documentation. Might be worth to print all contexts etc. to check whether this information is available but undocumented.

Other than that, you may use the API to get the job ids:

https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/jobs

docs.github.com

Actions - GitHub Docs

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justinmchase · 2023-06-16T15:37:22Z

justinmchase
Jun 16, 2023

This shows an existing run, is it possible to create a hyperlink that will create a new run when clicked?

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