I am writing a GitHub Action to try and automate our (beta) project board. I need to take into account the number of required reviews before I move the issue or PR into the ‘Approved’ column.

In trying to get the count of required reviews it always returns empty. I have run this exact query in the GitHub GraphQL Explorer and also checked my jq query in JQ Play. These both return the correct value (in my test case this is 1.

However when moving this to a GitHub Action it returns REVIEW_REQUIRED_COUNT=

I have also tried to play around with the GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, as I think this could be the error but I have hit a brick wall - please can someone help?

---
name: MY ACTION
"on":

pull_request:

branches: [develop, master]
env:

PR_URL: ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}

GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MY_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
jobs:

my-job:

name: My Job

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

permissions: read-all

steps:

- name: Get req review count

id: review-count

run: |

gh api graphql -f query='

query($pr_url: URI!) {

resource(url: $pr_url) {

... on PullRequest {

baseRepository {

branchProtectionRules(first: 1) {

nodes {

requiredApprovingReviewCount

}

}

}

}

}

}'  -f pr_url=$PR_URL > data.json

echo 'REVIEW_REQUIRED_COUNT='$(jq '.data.resource.baseRepository.branchProtectionRules.nodes[] | .requiredApprovingReviewCount' data.json) >> $GITHUB_ENV
    - run: env