download-file-action

GitHub Action to download a file from the internet into the workspace.

Inputs

• file-url: (Required) The URL of the file to download.
• file-name: (Optional) A new filename to rename the downloaded file.
• location: (Optional) A path to download the file.
• md5: (Optional) An MD5 hash to verify the download.
• sha256: (Optional) An SHA256 hash to verify the download.

Outputs

• file-path: The absolute path to the downloaded file.

Example usage

In its simplest form you can you indicate what file to download and use it:

- name: Download a file
  uses: carlosperate/download-file-action@v2
  with:
    file-url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py'
- name: Check the file is there
  run: ls -l get-poetry.py

To use all the options:

- name: Download a file
  uses: carlosperate/download-file-action@v2
  id: download-file
  with:
    file-url: 'https://github.com/carlosperate/download-file-action/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.3.tar.gz'
    file-name: 'new_filename.tar.gz'
    location: './new-folder-to-be-created'
    md5: 'e3b51204dedc75588ca164a26b51610d'
    sha256: '76ef5cf6e910a4955f713fb36cca6f90ffeee6ffafe743754716e149d68136de'
- name: Print the file path (new-folder-to-be-created/new_filename.tar.gz)
  run: echo "The file was downloaded to ${{ steps.download-file.outputs.file-path }}"