GitHub action for downloading, extracting, caching an executable from a GitHub release and putting it to PATH.

• Simple syntax with defaults according to the best performance and practices.
• Convenient version specification - latest or X.Y.Z or any semantic version specification.
• An already unpacked version is cached to speed up the build pipeline.
• GitHub workflow token is used by default.

Install jsonlint from the most recent release:

- uses: prantlf/install-release-action@v1
  with:
    repo: prantlf/v-jsonlint

Install jsonlint from the compatible patch release recent release:

- uses: prantlf/install-release-action@v1
  with:
    repo: prantlf/v-jsonlint
    version: ~0.0.1

The following parameters can be specified using the with object:

Type: String

Specify the repository in the form owner/name to download the archive with the executable from. Mandatory.

Type: String
Default: latest

Specify the version of the executable to download and extract. It can be latest (the latest published semantic version), or a semantic version number, plain or in the form of a git tag (usually vX.Y.Z, but sometimes only X.Y.Z), or any semantic version specification.

Type: String
Default: (inferred from platform archives)

Specify the name prefix of the archive to download and the name of the the executable to extract from it. If not specified, the first archive named {name}-{platform}-{architecture}.zip will be picked and the prefix name will be used.

Type: Boolean
Default: true

Set to false to ignore the cache and always perform the full installation by downloading and unpacking a binary.

Type: String
Default: ${{ github.token }}

Authorization token to inspect releases and commits in the {repo} repository. Either a GitHub personal access token or the GitHub workflow token. If not provided, the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN will be used as a fallback. And if even that is not set, the GitHub workflow token from the action-execution context will be used as default.

The following parameters can be accessed by the github context:

Type: String

The actually installed version of the executable, as returned by {executable} -V., for example: 1.0.0.

Type: String

The complete path to the directory with the extracted.

Type: String

The complete path to the extracted executable.

Type: Boolean

A boolean value indicating if the installation succeeded from the cache.

Copyright (C) 2023 Ferdinand Prantl

Licensed under the MIT License.