[SOLVED] How to run a code inside GitHub Actions as it is running outside the USA location?

How to run a code inside GitHub Actions as it is running outside the USA location?

I want to get an API call response inside GitHub Actions for example:

url = https://api.blabla.com/endpoint

response = requests.get(url)

print('response =', response)

I want to find a way to run this code inside GitHub Actions without need for any outside server just change the location locally inside the GitHub or YAML file if possible.

Solution

Yes, it's possible. When you run the CI in the GitHub actions, it use GitHub pods which connected to external service. So you can send the request into the external server and get the response from them. Here is simple code of yaml file.

name: API

on:
  push: 
    branches: 
       -main

jobs: 
    api_request:
        -name: check out repo
         uses: actions/checkout@2
        -name: set up python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with: 
            python-version: '3.9'
        -name: install requirements
         run: | 
             pip install requests
        -name: Send Request to API
         run: |
             python -c "import requests; url = 'https://api.blabla.com/endpoint';response = requests.get(url); print('response =', response.text)"

You can think GitHub action that runs on server as a simple node of network.