https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details
🤖 Get bot details (name, email, author/committer) in a proper format for the subsequence steps like git, PR, and more.
https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details
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🤖 Get bot details (name, email, author/committer) in a proper format for the subsequence steps like git, PR, and more.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details
- Owner: raven-actions
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-05-24T02:29:20.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-20T02:12:05.000Z (12 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-22T11:48:50.702Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: github-action, github-actions, raven-actions
- Homepage: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/bot-details
- Size: 39.1 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: .github/SECURITY.md
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# 🤖 Bot Details Action
[](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/bot-details)
[](https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details/releases/latest)
[](https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details/actions/workflows/ci.yml?query=branch%3Amain+event%3Apush)
[](https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details/blob/main/LICENSE)
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This [GitHub Action](https://github.com/features/actions) allows you to quickly and easily get bot (GitHub App) basic details like name, email, author/committer, ... in a proper GitHub format to use in the subsequence steps for automation like git commit/push, open PR, etc.
- Action is platform-independent and tested on all the latest GitHub-hosted runners (`ubuntu-latest`, `macos-latest`, `windows-latest`).
## 📑 Table of Contents
- [🛠️ Usage](#️-usage)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Consume methods](#consume-methods)
- [Action's output](#actions-output)
- [Environment variables](#environment-variables)
- [Example usage scenarios](#example-usage-scenarios)
- [Git commit](#git-commit)
- [Pull Request](#pull-request)
- [📥 Inputs](#-inputs)
- [📤 Outputs](#-outputs)
- [👥 Contributing](#-contributing)
- [🛡️ License](#️-license)
## 🛠️ Usage
### Quick Start
Just place in your GitHub workflow steps:
```yaml
- name: Bot Details
id: bot-details
uses: raven-actions/bot-details@v1
- name: Bot Details outputs
run: |
echo "ID: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.id }}"
echo "Slug name: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.slug }}"
echo "Display name: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name }}"
echo "Email: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.email }}"
echo "Name Email: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name-email }}"
echo "HTML URL: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.html-url }}"
echo "API URL: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.api-url }}"
```
Example output with default settings:
- ID: `41898282`
- Slug name: `github-actions`
- Display name: `github-actions[bot]`
- Email: `41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com`
- Name Email: `github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>`
- HTML URL: `https://github.com/apps/github-actions`
- API URL: `https://api.github.com/users/github-actions%5Bbot%5D`
### Consume methods
#### Action's output
Use the action's output in the subsequence steps
```yaml
- name: Bot Details
id: bot-details
uses: raven-actions/bot-details@v1
with:
bot-slug-name: dependabot # (optional) if not specified then default one is 'github-actions'
- name: Bot Details outputs
run: |
echo "ID: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.id }}"
echo "Slug name: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.slug }}"
echo "Display name: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name }}"
echo "Email: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.email }}"
echo "Name Email: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name-email }}"
echo "HTML URL: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.html-url }}"
echo "API URL: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.api-url }}"
```
#### Environment variables
Use environment variables in the subsequence steps.
```yaml
- name: Bot Details
uses: raven-actions/bot-details@v1
with:
bot-slug-name: my-gh-app # (optional) if not specified then default one is 'github-actions'
- name: Bot Details outputs
run: |
echo "ID: ${{ env.BOT_ID }}"
echo "Slug name: ${{ env.BOT_SLUG }}"
echo "Display name: ${{ env.BOT_NAME }}"
echo "Email: ${{ env.BOT_EMAIL }}"
echo "Name Email: ${{ env.BOT_NAME_EMAIL }}"
echo "HTML URL: ${{ env.BOT_HTML_URL }}"
echo "API URL: ${{ env.BOT_API_URL }}"
```
Use environment variables with custom environment prefix in the subsequence steps.
> Environment prefix will be upper-cased and striped from any special characters.
> A double underscore `__` is placed between environment prefix and env name.
```yaml
- name: Bot Details
uses: raven-actions/bot-details@v1
with:
env-prefix: myEnvPrefix # (optional) if not specified then no prefix
- name: Bot Details outputs
run: |
echo "ID: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_ID }}"
echo "Slug name: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_SLUG }}"
echo "Display name: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_NAME }}"
echo "Email: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_EMAIL }}"
echo "Name Email: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_NAME_EMAIL }}"
echo "HTML URL: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_HTML_URL }}"
echo "API URL: ${{ env.MYENVPREFIX__BOT_API_URL }}"
```
### Example usage scenarios
Below are examples based on existing actions.
#### Git commit
Example with [Git Auto Commit](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/git-auto-commit) action.
```yaml
- name: Git Auto Commit
uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
with:
commit_user_name: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name }}
commit_user_email: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.email }}
commit_author: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name-email }}
```
#### Pull Request
Example with [Create Pull Request](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/create-pull-request) action.
```yaml
- name: Create Pull Request
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
with:
committer: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name-email }}
author: ${{ steps.bot-details.outputs.name-email }}
```
## 📥 Inputs
| Name | Required | Type | Default | Description |
|:---------------:|:--------:|:--------:|:----------------:|:-------------------------------------------|
| `bot-slug-name` | false | `string` | `github-actions` | Bot slug name (GitHub App name) |
| `env-prefix` | false | `string` | *not set* | Prefix for environment variables |
| `github-token` | false | `string` | `github.token` | GitHub token to use for API authentication |
## 📤 Outputs
| Name | Type | Description |
|:------------:|:--------:|:------------------------------------|
| `id` | `number` | Bot ID |
| `slug` | `string` | Bot slug name |
| `name` | `string` | Bot display name |
| `email` | `string` | Bot GitHub formatted email |
| `name-email` | `string` | Bot GitHub formatted name and email |
| `html-url` | `string` | Bot HTML URL |
| `api-url` | `string` | Bot API URL |
## 👥 Contributing
Contributions to the project are welcome! Please follow [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
## 🛡️ License
This project is distributed under the terms of the [MIT](https://github.com/raven-actions/bot-details/blob/main/LICENSE) license.