Updating GitHub issues from GitHub Actions - github

Question

I was trying to make a GitHub action using some simple scripts (which I already use locally) that I would like to run inside a docker container.
A new issue should trigger the event to update the said issue with its content based on some processing. An example of this might be:
Say I have a list of labels defined in my script and it checks the issue's title and adds a label to the issue.
I'm still reading the GitHub Action's documentation so I may be not completely informed but the issue I seem to have is that in my local machine these scripts use gh cli for doing such tasks (eg. adding labels). So I was wondering if I need to have the gh installed in that docker container or is there a better way to update the issue? I'm very much willing to make these scripts from scratch again using the GitHub's event payloads and stuff as long as I don't have to write in TypeScript.
I've looked around the documentation and couldn't find anything that talked about updating issues. Also couldn't find a similar question being asked here; it may be that I've missed something so if that is the case direct me to relevant material and I would very much appreciate it.

Answer 1

An option could be (as you said) to install GH in that docker container, and then run GH commands.
Example using a container:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container:
image: docker://myrepoandimagewithghinstalled
steps:
- name: Github CLI Authentication
run: gh auth login --hostname <your hostname>
- name: Github CLI commands execution samples
run: |
gh command1
gh command2
gh command3
Another option could be to install GH directly on the OS (for exemple ubuntu-latest), authenticate, and then use the "run" option to execute GH command.
Example installing GH on the OS:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Install Github CLI
run: |
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key C99B11DEB97541F0
sudo apt-add-repository https://cli.github.com/packages
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh
- name: Github CLI Authentication
run: gh auth login --hostname <your hostname>
- name: Github CLI commands execution samples
run: |
gh command1
gh command2
gh command3
Finally, you could also create a script consuming the Github API service to update an ISSUE and execute the script using the run option.
Example to execute a Python script in your workflow:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: checkout repo content
uses: actions/checkout#v2 # checkout the repository content to github runner.
- name: setup python
uses: actions/setup-python#v2
with:
python-version: 3.8 #install the python needed
- name: execute py script # run the run.py to get the latest data
run: |
python run.py
env:
key: ${{ secrets.key }} # if run.py requires passwords..etc, set it as secrets
- name: export index
.... # use crosponding script or actions to help export.