slack-notification-action

This is an action to notify a status of GitHub Actions to a Slack channel.

Example

Getting Started

To nofity a failure of workflow run on main branch,

name: slack-notification

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows:
      - '**'
      # you can exclude some workflows, like:
      # - '!*-metrics'
    branches:
      - main
    types:
      - completed

jobs:
  send:
    if: github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10
    steps:
      - uses: quipper/slack-notification-action@v2
        with:
          slack-channel-id: ABCDEF123 # your Slack channel ID
          slack-app-token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_APP_TOKEN }}

You need to set up your Slack App. See https://github.com/slackapi/slack-github-action for details.

Specification

This action ignores an event if the conclusion is cancelled or skipped.

When this action is run on workflow_run event, it inspects the target workflow run. Otherwise, it inspects the current workflow run.

Inputs

Name	Default	Description
slack-channel-id	(required)	ID of the Slack channel
slack-app-token	(dry-run)	Bot token of Slack App
github-token	github.token	GitHub token
lost-communication-error-message	See action.yaml	Message to send when "The self-hosted runner lost communication with the server" error
mention-message	github.actor	Message to mention the current user

Outputs

None.