Find links in comments

A GitHub action to find an issue or pull request comment with links and optionally set them as the body of the current pull request.

The action will output the links found based on the criteria given

Original source based off of https://github.com/peter-evans/find-comment

Usage

Find links in comments for the specific domains

      - name: Find links in comment
        uses: getkalido/action-auto-link-aggregator@v2
        id: fc
        with:
          issue-number: 1
          domain-filters: monday.com|github.com

Find any links in comments

      - name: Find links in comment
        uses: getkalido/action-auto-link-aggregator@v2
        id: fc
        with:
          issue-number: 1

Find links for domains and update pull request

      - name: Find links in comment
        uses: getkalido/action-auto-link-aggregator@v2
        id: fc
        with:
          issue-number: 1
          domain-filters: monday.com|github.com
          set-links-as-pr-comment: true

Action inputs

Name	Description	Default
token	GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped PAT.	GITHUB_TOKEN
repository	The full name of the repository containing the issue or pull request.	github.repository (Current repository)
current-branch	The current branch that the repo is on.	HEAD
issue-number	The target/base branch of the PR.	origin/staging
issue-number	The number of the issue or pull request in which to search.	github.event.pull_request.number
domain-filters	Filters for the links to include only certain ones.
set-links-as-pr-comment	Flag to set the links found as the body on the PR	false

Outputs

The links and authors of the comments matchng the domians found will be output for use in later steps in a links list The list will be an empty if no matching comment was found. In addition a base64 version of the list will also be included when the list cannot be parsed by the receiving language (eg. Perl) Note that in order to read the step outputs the action step must have an id.

      - name: Find links in comment
        uses: getkalido/action-auto-link-aggregator@v2
        id: fc
        with:
          issue-number: 1
          domain-filters: monday.com|github.com
      - run: |
          echo ${{ steps.fc.outputs.links }}
          echo ${{ steps.fc.outputs.linksb64 }}

The link list is output in the following format:

Link {
  id: string;
  author: string;
  link: string;
  name: string;
}

Contribution

Setup

Run npm install to fetch all the packages needed