GitHub Action to manage labels on GitHub (create/rename/update/delete) as code.

• Usage
  • YAML configuration
  • Workflow
• Customizing
  • inputs
• Contributing
• License

In the repository where you want to perform this action, create the YAML file .github/labels.yml (you can also set a custom filename) that looks like:

- name: "bug"
  color: "#d73a4a"
  description: "Something isn't working"
- name: "documentation"
  color: "#0075ca"
  description: "Improvements or additions to documentation"
- name: "duplicate"
  color: "#cfd8d7"
  description: "This issue or pull request already exists"
- name: "enhancement"
  color: "#a22eef"
- name: "wontfix_it"
  color: "#000000"
  description: "This will not be worked on"
  from_name: "wontfix"

• name, color and description are the main GitHub label fields
• description can be omit if your want to keep the current one
• from_name allow to rename a label from one currently available on your repository

name: github

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'
    paths:
      - '.github/labels.yml'
      - '.github/workflows/labels.yml'
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '.github/labels.yml'
      - '.github/workflows/labels.yml'

jobs:
  labeler:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      issues: write
    steps:
      -
        name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      -
        name: Run Labeler
        uses: crazy-max/ghaction-github-labeler@v5
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          yaml-file: .github/labels.yml
          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
          exclude: |
            help*
            *issue

With this workflow, the YAML configuration above on a fresh repository, this will:

• Skip bug (because same color and description)
• Skip documentation (because same color and description)
• Update duplicate (color is different)
• Update enhancement (color is different, keep current description)
• Leave good first issue alone (because it matches an exclude pattern)
• Leave help wanted alone (because it matches an exclude pattern)
• Delete invalid
• Delete question
• Rename wontfix to wontfix_it and set color and description

Following inputs can be used as step.with keys

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Thanks again for your support, it is much appreciated! 🙏

MIT. See LICENSE for more details.