Periodic Labeler Action

A GitHub action to automatically label all PRs according to file patterns.

📝 Note: The pull_request_target event added to GitHub Actions makes it possible to achieve this without a scheduled workflow. See this post for an example.

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• Usage

Usage

Action is meant to be run as periodic job. This is needed to workaround issues regarding lack of write access when executed from fork which is a common problem when using https://github.com/actions/labeler.

---
name: Pull request labeler
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
jobs:
  labeler:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: paulfantom/periodic-labeler@master
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
          LABEL_MAPPINGS_FILE: .github/labeler.yml

By default action uses .github/labeler.yml located in repository from GITHUB_REPOSITORY as a source of pattern matchers. This file uses the same schema as in https://github.com/actions/labeler