I am running the example of a JavaScript GitHub action, which works when triggered by a push event, but not when triggered by a cron schedule. I expect the action to run every 5 minutes, but it doesn’t.
Here is my code for reference:
on:
schedule:
- cron: '*/5 * * * *'
jobs:
hello_world_job:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: A job to say hello
steps:
- name: Hello world action step
id: hello
uses: StephenVNelson/website/@3-experiment-with-actions
with:
who-to-greet: 'Mona the Octocat'
# Use the output from the `hello` step
- name: Get the output time
run: echo "The time was ${{ steps.hello.outputs.time }}"
name: 'Hello World'
description: 'Greet someone and record the time'
inputs:
who-to-greet: # id of input
description: 'Who to greet'
required: true
default: 'World'
outputs:
time: # id of output
description: 'The time we greeted you'
runs:
using: 'node12'
main: './github-actions/main.js'
const core = require('@actions/core');
const github = require('@actions/github');
try {
// `who-to-greet` input defined in action metadata file
const nameToGreet = core.getInput('who-to-greet');
console.log(`Hello ${nameToGreet}!`);
const time = (new Date()).toTimeString();
core.setOutput("time", time);
// Get the JSON webhook payload for the event that triggered the workflow
const payload = JSON.stringify(github.context.payload, undefined, 2)
console.log(`The event payload: ${payload}`);
} catch (error) {
core.setFailed(error.message);
}
I am running a JavaScript GitHub action, which works when triggered by a push event, but not when triggered by a cron schedule. I expect the action to run every 5 minutes, but it does not. Here is my code for reference: