py-package-info

Python Package Info Actions

A GitHub Action that fetches release info from PyPI's API.

Example usage:

name: Example Workflow for Python Package Info Action
on: push
jobs:
  parse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Get Package Info
        id: package-info
        uses: dbt-labs/actions/py-package-info
        with:
          package: "dbt-snowflake"

      - name: Use Package Info
        run: |
          echo name: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.name }}
          echo version: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.version }}
          echo homepage: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.homepage }}
          echo summary: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.summary }}
          echo author: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.author }}
          echo author-email: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.author-email }}
          echo source-url: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.source-url }}
          echo source-checksum: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.source-checksum }}
          echo source-checksum-type: ${{ steps.package-info.outputs.source-checksum-type }}

Inputs

Property	Required	Description
package	yes	Name of package to fetch from PyPI
version	no	Version of package to fetch from PyPI

Outputs (with dbt-snowflake as an example input)

Property	Example	Description
name	dbt-snowflake	Package name
version	1.0.0	Package version
homepage	https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake	Package homepage
summary	The Snowflake adapter plugin for dbt	Package summary
author	dbt Labs	Package author
author-email	info@dbtlabs.com	Package author email
source-url	https://files.pythonhosted..../dbt-snowflake-1.0.0.tar.gz	Package source distribution url
source-checksum	a263274d6af430edf.....7ec8b1c82cb30b25e42be9a1c	Package source distribution checksum
source-checksum-type	sha256	Package source distribution checksum type

Development

• This action is tested by this workflow.
• You can run this test workflow locally with act by running act -W .github/workflows/py-package-info.yml
  • Note: act does not handle the continue-on-error logic properly, so the invalid test case will fail locally.