I use GitHub Actions and want to test it locally. I'm using this tool and it works fine. https://github.com/nektos/act
I can provide a event.json for local testing, but it's really hard to create a real event payload.
Is there any way to get real event payload? For example, I create pull request on my repository from the console, and get that event payload json.
To get event data, you can use a GitHub action to print the event to the log.
# change this to the event type you want to get the data for
on:
pull_request:
types: [opened, closed, reopened]
jobs:
printJob:
name: Print event
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Dump GitHub context
env:
GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
run: |
echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
Alternatively, you can find example event data in the documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads#webhook-payload-example-30