mildronize / actions-json-get-key

Simple GitHub Action to read a specified property from a JSON file and export value to file

Get JSON by Key

Get a specified property of a json file.

Usage

Use the action inside your workflow yaml file like this:

...
- name: get version
  id: version
  uses: mildronize/actions-json-get-key@v1
  with: 
    path: 'package.json'
    prop_path: 'version'
- run: echo ${{steps.version.outputs.prop}} 
...

Get a nested property value with dot separated prop_path

...
- name: get nested property
  id: format_script
  uses: mildronize/actions-json-get-key@v1
  with: 
    path: 'package.json'
    prop_path: 'scripts.format'
- run: echo ${{steps.format_script.outputs.prop}} 
...

Export the value to file

...
- name: get nested property
  id: format_script
  uses: mildronize/actions-json-get-key@v1
  with: 
    path: 'package.json'
    prop_path: 'scripts.format'
    output_path: 'version.txt'
- run: cat version.txt
...

Thanks the original: https://github.com/notiz-dev/github-action-json-property