The action wraps the GitHub Release API, specifically the Upload A Release Asset endpoint, to allow you to leverage GitHub Actions to upload release assets.

Create a workflow .yml file in your repositories .github/workflows directory. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Quickstart for GitHub Actions. You also will need to have a release to upload your asset to, which could be created programmatically by @bruceadams/get-release as show in the example workflow.

This Action needs the environment variable ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} to be set correctly. GITHUB_TOKEN secret created automatically by GitHub, and you don't need more operation. For more information, see the Automatic token authentication

For more information on these inputs, see the API Documentation

• release_id: The ID uploading assets to the release, which could come from another GitHub Action, for example the @bruceadams/get-release GitHub Action

For more information on these outputs, see the API Documentation

• id: The ID of the asset
• browser_download_url: The URL users can navigate to in order to download the release asset.

On every push to a tag matching the pattern v*, create a release and upload a release asset. This Workflow example assumes you have the @bruceadams/get-release Action in a previous step:

name: Upload Release Asset

on:
  push:
    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
    tags:
    - 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10

jobs:
  build:
    name: Upload Release Asset
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Build project # This would actually build your project, using zip for an example artifact
        run: |
          zip --junk-paths my-artifact README.md

      - name: Get Release
        id: get_release
        uses: bruceadams/get-release@v1.3.2
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Upload Release Asset
        id: upload-release-asset 
        uses: basefas/upload-release-asset-action@v1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          release_id: ${{ steps.get_release.outputs.id }} # This pulls from the Get RELEASE step above, referencing its ID to get its outputs object, which include a `id`.
          asset_path: ./my-artifact.zip
          asset_name: my-artifact.zip

This will upload a release artifact to an existing release, outputting the browser_download_url for the asset which could be handled by a third party service, or by GitHub Actions for additional uses. For more information, see the GitHub Documentation for the upload a release asset endpoint.

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License