Spammy guardian

GitHub Action deleting comments and closing issues based on repetitive occurrences in a comment.

Motivation

Being hit by fake spam accounts is a common problem for open-source projects. This GitHub Action is a simple way to prevent spammy comments. A target example with mass tags is the following:

Check my photos on **url**
@AZE @AZE @AZE @AZE @AZE @AZE @AZE @AZE

Inputs

Input	Required	Description	Default
minOccurences	false	min count of occurrences to trigger the action	10
regex	false	Regex to test the occurrences against	/@(\w+)/g
title	false	optional title replacement for closed issues	'[Moderated]'
body	false	optional body replacement for closed issues	'Moderated content'

workflow_dispatch inputs

Input	Required	Description	Default
issueId	false	to test the action against all comments from an issue (workflow-dispatch only)

Triggers

Name	Description
issue_comment	to test on comment creation
issues	to test on issue creation
workflow_dispatch	manual run on an issue (requires an issue id)

Workflow examples

on issue comment

name: Spammy Guardian
on: [issue_comment]
jobs:
  spammy-guardian:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: kerhub/[email protected]
        with:
          minOccurrences: 5
          regex: /@(\w+)/g

on issue creation

name: Spammy Guardian
on: 
  issues:
    types: [opened]
jobs:
  spammy-guardian:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: kerhub/[email protected]
        with:
          minOccurrences: 5
          regex: /@(\w+)/g  

on workflow_dispatch

name: Spammy Guardian
on: 
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      issueId:
        description: 'Issue ID'
        required: true
jobs:
  spammy-guardian:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: kerhub/[email protected]
        with:
          minOccurrences: 5
          regex: /@(\w+)/g  

Credits

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