approve-dependabot.yml

name: Dependabot Pull Request Approve and Merge

on: pull_request

permissions:
  pull-requests: write
  contents: write

jobs:
  dependabot_auto_approval:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # Checking the actor will prevent your Action run failing on non-Dependabot
    # PRs but also ensures that it only does work for Dependabot PRs.
    if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
    env:
      PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
    steps:
      # This first step will fail if there's no metadata and so the approval
      # will not occur.
      - name: Dependabot metadata
        id: dependabot-metadata
        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@v1
        with:
          github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      # Here the PR gets approved.
      - name: Approve a PR
        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL"
      # Finally, this sets the PR to allow auto-merging for all version upgrades.
      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"