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Identify Issue that triggered GitHub Action within the Action #27203
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So I want to trigger an Action when I label an Issue and then create a branch based on the description of the issue. I have the Action that is triggered by adding a Label, but I cannot find any documentation on how to identity the specific Issue that was the source of the trigger. (I am probably missing something obvious) Is there a way to get an id/name of the GitHub object (Issue, PR, Commit, etc…) whose event triggered a specific GitHub Action? |
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Thanks JJ, I had some trouble getting from the gitHub.event but using the GITHUB_EVENT_PATH environment variable and reading that json file I was able to access the label object and the issue number which was the trigger for the action. I really appreciate your response through JJ, I would not have figured that out without your help :slight_smile: |
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github.eventwill contain all information GitHub has on the event. It contains a label, object, which will probably contain an URL from which you can get the issue number, or that can be queried to obtain more information.