Using the Markdown as an Action Output

By default, the YouTube Cards action will automatically write to your README file and commit. If you would like to customize this behavior, you can use the markdown output, and optionally enable output_only to skip writing to the file.

Using the markdown output

Assign an id to the action step for later reference, for example id: youtube-cards, then reference the markdown output with ${{ steps.youtube-cards.outputs.markdown }}.

name: GitHub Readme YouTube Cards
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: DenverCoder1/github-readme-youtube-cards@main
        id: youtube-cards
        with:
          channel_id: UCipSxT7a3rn81vGLw9lqRkg
      - run: echo OUTPUT '${{ steps.youtube-cards.outputs.markdown }}'
        shell: bash

Skip writing to the file

Setting output_only to "true" will allow you to use the output elsewhere instead of writing to the readme automatically.

name: GitHub Readme YouTube Cards
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: DenverCoder1/github-readme-youtube-cards@main
        id: youtube-cards
        with:
          channel_id: UCipSxT7a3rn81vGLw9lqRkg
          output_only: "true"
      - run: echo OUTPUT '${{ steps.youtube-cards.outputs.markdown }}'
        shell: bash