Find Comment
A GitHub action to find an issue or pull request comment.
The action will output the comment ID of the comment matching the search criteria.
Usage
Find the first comment containing the specified string
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
body-includes: search string 1Find the first comment by the specified author
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
comment-author: peter-evansFind the first comment containing the specified string AND by the specified author
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
comment-author: peter-evans
body-includes: search string 1Find the first comment matching the specified regular expression
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
body-regex: '^.*search string 1.*$'Find the last comment containing the specified string
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
body-includes: search string 1
direction: lastAction inputs
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
token |
GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped PAT. |
GITHUB_TOKEN |
repository |
The full name of the repository containing the issue or pull request. | github.repository (Current repository) |
issue-number |
The number of the issue or pull request in which to search. | |
comment-author |
The GitHub user name of the comment author. | |
body-includes |
A string to search for in the body of comments. | |
body-regex |
A regular expression to search for in the body of comments. | |
direction |
Search direction, specified as first or last |
first |
Outputs
The comment-id, comment-body and comment-author of the matching comment found will be output for use in later steps.
They will be empty strings if no matching comment was found.
Note that in order to read the step outputs the action step must have an id.
Tip: Empty strings evaluate to zero in GitHub Actions expressions.
e.g. If comment-id is an empty string steps.fc.outputs.comment-id == 0 evaluates to true.
- name: Find Comment
uses: peter-evans/find-comment@v2
id: fc
with:
issue-number: 1
body-includes: search string 1
- run: |
echo ${{ steps.fc.outputs.comment-id }}
echo ${{ steps.fc.outputs.comment-body }}
echo ${{ steps.fc.outputs.comment-author }}Accessing issues and pull requests in other repositories
You can search the comments of issues and pull requests in another repository by using a PAT instead of GITHUB_TOKEN.