diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-external-links.yml b/.github/workflows/check-external-links.yml
index 99ed0dfbd681..935873856147 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-external-links.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-external-links.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ defaults:
   run:
     shell: bash
 
+permissions: write-all # since narrower scopes don't work ...
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }} # do not allow any concurrency or the different builds will risk creating multiple issues
@@ -19,14 +20,19 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions: write-all # since narrower scopes don't work ...
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Get current date
-        id: date
+      - name: Create issue using REST API
         run: |
-          echo "month=$(date +'%Y-%m')" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "day=$(date +'%d')" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          curl --request POST \
+          --url https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/issues \
+          --header 'authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}' \
+          --header 'content-type: application/json' \
+          --data '{
+            "title": "Automated issue for commit: ${{ github.sha }}",
+            "body": "This issue was automatically created by the GitHub Action workflow **${{ github.workflow }}**. \n\n The commit hash was: _${{ github.sha }}_."
+            }' \
+          --fail
       - name: Restoring cached GitHub API results
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         with: