Slugify

Github Action to slugify a value

Produce some slug-ed environment variables based on the input one.

• <env name>_SLUG

  • put the variable content in lower case
  • replace any character by - except 0-9, a-z, ., and _
  • remove leading - character
  • limit the string size to 63 characters
  • remove trailing - character

• <env name>_SLUG_CS

  • like <env name>_SLUG but the content is not put in lower case

• <env name>_SLUG_URL (or <env name>_SLUG_URL_CS)

  • like <env name>_SLUG (or <env name>_SLUG_CS) with the ., and _ characters also replaced by -

Usage

• Slugify a value and store it using a key

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: KEY_NAME
      value: value_to_slugify

  Will make available

  • KEY_NAME
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_CS
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_URL
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_URL_CS

• Slugify the value of an environment variable

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: EXISTING_ENV_VAR

  Will make available

  • EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG
  • EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_CS
  • EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_URL
  • EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_URL_CS

• Slugify the value of an environment variable with prefix

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: EXISTING_ENV_VAR
      prefix: CI_

  Will make available

  • CI_EXISTING_ENV_VAR
  • CI_EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG
  • CI_EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_CS
  • CI_EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_URL
  • CI_EXISTING_ENV_VAR_SLUG_URL_CS

• Slugify a value with a different slug length

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: EXISTING_ENV_VAR
      slug-maxlength: 80

  Will produce SLUG variables with a 80-char length

• Slugify a value without length limit

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: EXISTING_ENV_VAR
      slug-maxlength: "nolimit"

  Will produce SLUG variables without limiting the output length

• Slugify a value without publishing the environment variables

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      key: KEY_NAME
      value: value_to_slugify
      publish-env: false

  Will not make available

  • KEY_NAME
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_CS
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_URL
  • KEY_NAME_SLUG_URL_CS

Inputs

Input	Description	Mandatory	Default
key	Environment variable that will hold the value and serve as prefix to slugified value	Yes
value	The value to slugify. If not set the value will be taken from the key input as environment variable	No
prefix	The value will be prepend to each generated variable	No
slug-maxlength	The value is a number or nolimit to reflect the length of the slug outputs	No	63
publish-env	In addition of the action output, the slug values are publish as environment variables	No	true

Outputs

Output	Description
value	The value to be slugify
slug	Value Slug
slug-cs	Value Slug (Case-sensitive)
slug-url	Value Slug URL
slug-url-cs	Value Slug URL (Case-sensitive)