https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator
Validate your CITATION.cff file with GitHub Actions
https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator
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Validate your CITATION.cff file with GitHub Actions
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator
- Owner: dieghernan
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-08-31T17:33:37.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-23T20:48:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-12T04:18:22.439Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: cff, citation, citation-file-format, citation-files, github-actions
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cff-validator
- Size: 2.47 MB
- Stars: 12
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.cff
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README
# cff-validator
[](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/actions/workflows/cff-validator.yml)
[](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/actions/workflows/cff-validator-complete-matrix.yml)
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5348443)
A GitHub action to validate `CITATION.cff` files with R.
**Breaking change: v4 only works on Linux, upgrade your v3 to run on
`ubuntu-*`.**
## Introduction
If you have a [Citation File Format
(cff)](https://citation-file-format.github.io) on your repository this action
would check its validity against the defined
[schema](https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/schema-guide.md).
A full valid workflow:
``` yaml
on:
push:
paths:
- CITATION.cff
workflow_dispatch:
name: CITATION.cff
jobs:
Validate-CITATION-cff:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Validate CITATION.cff
env:
GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Validate CITATION.cff
uses: dieghernan/cff-validator@v4
```
On error, the action produces a Job Summary with a high-level description of the
errors found:
citation_cff.md
❌ CITATION.cff has errors
| field | message |
|:----------------|:---------------------------------|
| data | has additional properties |
| data.authors.0 | no schemas match |
| data.doi | referenced schema does not match |
| data.keywords.0 | is the wrong type |
| data.license | referenced schema does not match |
| data.url | referenced schema does not match |
: See [Guide to Citation File Format schema version
1.2.0](https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/schema-guide.md)
for debugging.
For more examples, see the actions provided on [this
path](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/tree/main/.github/workflows).
## Add a badge to your repo
You can easily create a badge showing the current status of validation of your
`CITATION.cff` like this:
[](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/actions/workflows/cff-validator.yml)
[](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/actions/workflows/cff-validator-error.yml)
See a quick demo:
## Inputs available
- `citation-path`: Path to .cff file to be validated. By default it selects a
`CITATION.cff` file on the root of the repository:
``` yaml
- name: Validate CITATION.cff
uses: dieghernan/cff-validator@v4
with:
citation-path: "examples/CITATION.cff"
```
- (Soft) Deprecated parameters in **v4**:
- `cache-version`
- `install-r`.
See a full featured implementation on [this
example](https://github.com/dieghernan/cff-validator/blob/main/.github/workflows/cff-validator-complete-matrix.yml).
## For useRs
This action runs on R. For the same functionality you can use the **cffr**
package:
``` r
cffr::cff_validate("CITATION.cff")
#>
#> cff_validate results——
#> Congratulations! This .cff file is valid
```
See
[`cffr::cff_validate()`](https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/reference/cff_validate.html)
for details.
## References
Druskat, S., Spaaks, J. H., Chue Hong, N., Haines, R., Baker, J., Bliven, S.,
Willighagen, E., Pérez-Suárez, D., & Konovalov, A. (2021). Citation File Format
(Version 1.2.0) [Computer software].