Polar GitHub Actions

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Integrate Polar into your GitHub Actions workflows easily thanks to our ready-to-use actions.

polarsource/actions/auth

This action allows you to generate a temporary Polar API token for your workflow, without the need to generate a long-lived personal access token.

1. Link your repository on Polar

You'll need to link the repository running the workflow to your Polar organization, as described here.

2. Add the action to your workflow

Your workflow will need the id-token permission:

permissions:
  id-token: write

You can then use the action like this:

- uses: polarsource/actions/auth@v1
  id: polar
  with:
    scope: 'openid benefits:read products:read'

The only required parameter, scope, is a space-separated list of scopes you want to grant to the resulting token. The token is available as an output of the action. For example, you can use it like this:

- name: 'Check Polar access'
  run: |
    resp=$(curl -XGET -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ steps.polar.outputs.token }}" https://api.polar.sh/api/v1/oauth2/userinfo)
    echo $resp

Note

The generated token is an organization access token.

Tip

How does it work?

We use GitHub OpenID Connect mechanism to authenticate the request truly comes for your repository's workflow. Since you've linked the repository on Polar, we can trust the action comes from you and deliver a short-lived token.

Scenarios

Tag an issue as priority if the author has access to a specific benefit

name: Priority Issues

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

permissions:
  id-token: write
  contents: read
  issues: write

env:
  POLAR_BENEFIT_ID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

jobs:
  check-priority:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: polarsource/actions/auth@v1
        id: polar
        with:
          scope: 'benefits:read'

      - name: 'Check if author has access to priority answers'
        id: check-benefit
        run: |
          resp=$(curl -XGET -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ steps.polar.outputs.token }}" https://api.polar.sh/api/v1/benefits/${{ env.POLAR_BENEFIT_ID }}/grants?is_granted=true&github_user_id=${{ github.event.issue.user.id }})
          count=$(($(jq -r '.pagination | .total_count' <<< "${resp}")))
          echo "count=$(echo $count)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      - name: 'Add the priority label'
        if: steps.check-benefit.outputs.count > 0
        run: gh issue edit "$NUMBER" --add-label "$LABELS"
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
          NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
          LABELS: priority

polarsource/actions/ads

This action allows you to automatically synchronize the ads created by your customers as part of an Ad benefit in a Markdown or HTML page.

1. Add the magic comment to your document

<!-- POLAR type=ads benefit_id=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 width=100 height=100 -->

benefit_id is the ID of your ad benefit. You can find it in your dashboard, on the Benefits page.

2. Add the action to your workflow

- name: Sync Polar ads
  uses: polarsource/actions/ads@main
  with:
    path: README.md
    token: ${{ secrets.POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

path is the path of the file you want to update. Glob patterns are supported. token is a valid Polar access token, which you can set in your repository secrets or generate using our auth action.

Scenarios

Update ads in README.md on push and every day

name: Ads sync example

on:
  push:
    branches: ["main"]

  schedule:
    - cron: "0 7 * * *"

jobs:
  sync:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      contents: write
      id-token: write

    steps:
      - name: Check out code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: polarsource/actions/auth@v1
        id: polar
        with:
          scope: 'openid'

      - name: Sync Polar ads
        uses: polarsource/actions/ads@v1
        with:
          path: README.md
          token: ${{ steps.polar.outputs.token }}

      - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
        with:
          commit_message: Update Polar ads