Comment Finder

This GitHub Action checks if a specific user or team member has commented on the current PR with given keywords.

The action can be useful in various scenarios, such as:

• Enforcing code review policies by requiring specific users or team members to approve changes before merging.
• Automating deployment processes by ensuring that the necessary approvals have been obtained.
• Implementing custom workflows based on comment patterns or specific user interactions.

Usage

name: Comment Finder
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, closed]
    paths-ignore:
      - '**.md'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check for comments
        uses: awcodify/comment-finder@v1
        with:
          authors: 'username1,username2'
          keywords: 'approve,yes,LGTM'
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Inputs

• authors: GitHub usernames or team slugs separated by commas. This will be used to filter comments by the author. If the author is a team, use the format team/{{team-name}}.
• keywords: Comment keywords to search for (comma-separated). For instance: approve,yes,LGTM.
• token: GitHub token.
• fail_on_mismatch: Fail the action if the given keywords are not found in the comments
• include_review_comments: This will allow use to search comment from pull request review

Outputs

• matching_authors: This will show authors which commented using given keyword in the PR.