I've been playing with GitHub Actions for a couple of months now. I had been an ardent Travis loyalist, but given how impressive GitHub Actions are it feels inevitable I will make the switch.
One thing which tripped me up though was how to add GitHub Actions badges to my projects. This is so I can provide some observability and prove my projects build and the tests pass.
It turns out it is really simple, but it doesn't seem to be well documented anywhere. So I thought I'd make a note of it and share it.
To add a GitHub Actions badge to your project just use the following markdown. Obviously fill in the relevant {user}, {repo} and {action} information:
[](https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/actions)
One thing which can be a little confusing is what the {action} name should be. This should reference the name property in the yaml action config file within your ./.github/workflows directory.
For a Rust project I recently worked on this is Build and Test.
name: Build and Test
on: [push]
jobs:
build:
...
The only change required for the badge URL is to replace the spaces with %20, so the URL {action} reference becomes Build%20and%20Test.
Here is an example from my Rust project which should make this clearer:
[](https://github.com/RobDWaller/csp-generator/actions)
And you can see the working badge here:
I hope this info helps, have fun with GitHub Actions, and if you have any questions drop me a message @RobDWaller.
Top comments (6)
This is great, I've been looking for this in the documentation and after all, once again, I ended up on DEV!
Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Thanks for sharing it, Rob.
This is quite useful. Thanks for sharing!
Is it possible to link to the latest build page instead of the actions page?
Thank you! Really useful! I don't know why to GitHub doesn't specify this on their docs.