coding-interview-university/.github/workflows/links_checker.yml

name: Links Checker

on:
  ## Allow triggering this workflow manually via GitHub CLI/web
  workflow_dispatch:

  ## Run this workflow automatically every month
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 1 * *'

jobs:
  link_checker:
    name: Check links and create automated issue if needed
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 5
    env:
      REPORT_FILE: links-report
    steps:
      ## Check out code using Git
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Check all links at README.md and translations files
        id: lychee
        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v1.2.0
        with:
          output: ${{ env.REPORT_FILE }}
          format: markdown
          ## Do not fail this step on broken links
          fail: false
          ## Allow pages replying with 200 (Ok), 204 (No Content),
          ## 206 (Partial Content) in at most 20 seconds with HTML content.
          args: >-
            --verbose
            --accept 200,204,206
            --headers "accept=text/html"
            --timeout 20
            --max-concurrency 10
            --no-progress
            README.md translations/*.md
        env:
          ## Avoid rate limiting when checking github.com links
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Lychee's exit code
        ## https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee#exit-codes
        run: echo Lychee exit with ${{ steps.lychee.outputs.exit_code }}

      - name: Find the last report issue open
        uses: micalevisk/last-issue-action@v1
        id: last_issue
        with:
          state: open
          labels: |
            report
            automated issue
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Create issue from report file
        if: ${{ steps.last_issue.outputs.has_found == 'false' }}
        uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v3
        with:
          title: Link checker report
          content-filepath: ${{ env.REPORT_FILE }}
          issue-number: ${{ steps.last_issue.outputs.issue_number }}
          labels: |
            report
            automated issue

      - name: Update last report open issue created
        if: ${{ steps.last_issue.outputs.has_found == 'true' }}
        uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v3
        with:
          title: Link checker report
          content-filepath: ${{ env.REPORT_FILE }}
          issue-number: ${{ steps.last_issue.outputs.issue_number }}
          labels: |
            report
            automated issue

      - name: Close last report open issue
        if: ${{ steps.lychee.outputs.exit_code == 0 }}
        uses: peter-evans/close-issue@v1
        with:
          issue-number: ${{ steps.last_issue.outputs.issue_number }}