Any way to get a link to a GitHub action's latest result?

Question

GitHub's Actions feature recently started letting users generate badges, to showcase the status of their tests. For example, if I have a set of tests that run on my repo's dev branch from a file named .github/test_dev.yml, I can access that build's status by adding /badge.svg to the end of the test's URL.

https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/actions/workflows/test_dev.yml/badge.svg

That's great from the standpoint of keeping your project readme up to date with the status of the project, but the next logical step would be to also add a link to the badge that points to the latest testing outcome.

Unfortunately, even though you can access all the tests of a particular action as follows:

https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/actions/workflows/test_dev.yml

The test runs themselves seem to be behind a unique ID under actions/runs/.

https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/actions/runs/1234567890

Is there any way to construct a URL that just points to the latest test? Something like:

https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/actions/workflows/test_dev.yml?result=latest

I poked through GitHub's documentation, but even though there's some documentation surrounding the generation of those badge SVG's, I couldn't find anything about linking directly to the action that actually generated that SVG.

Answer 1

you can use this to get the id in a yaml file:

https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}