Command line utility for creating GitHub comments on Commits, Pull Request Reviews, Pull Request Files, Issues and Pull Requests.

GitHub API supports these types of comments:

• Comments on Repos/Commits
• Comments on Pull Request Reviews
• Comments on Pull Request Files
• Comments on Issues
• Comments on Pull Requests (in the global section)

Since GitHub considers Pull Requests as Issues, Comments on Issues and Comments on Pull Requests use the same API.

The utility supports all these types of comments (commit, pr-review, pr-file, issue, pr).

This project is part of our comprehensive "SweetOps" approach towards DevOps.

It's 100% Open Source and licensed under the APACHE2.

GitHub PR Review Comment

NOTE: Create a GitHub token with repo:status and public_repo scopes.

NOTE: The utility accepts parameters as command-line arguments or as ENV variables (or any combination of command-line arguments and ENV vars). Command-line arguments take precedence over ENV vars.

NOTE: The utility accepts the text of the comment from the command-line argument comment, from the ENV variable GITHUB_COMMENT, or from the standard input. Command-line argument takes precedence over ENV var, and ENV var takes precedence over standard input. Accepting comments from stdin allows using Unix pipes to send the output from another program as the input to the tool:

    cat comment.txt | github-commenter ...

    terraform plan 2>&1 | github-commenter -format "Output from `terraform plan`<br/>```{{.}}```"

NOTE: The utility supports sprig functions in Go templates, allowing to use string replacement and Regular Expressions in the format argument.

See string functions for more details.

For example:

GITHUB_COMMENT_FORMAT="Helm diff:<br><br><pre>{{regexReplaceAllLiteral `\\n` . `<br>` }}<pre>"

The utility can be called directly or as a Docker container.

go get

CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -v -o "./dist/bin/github-commenter" *.go

run_locally_with_env_vars.sh

export GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export GITHUB_OWNER=cloudposse
export GITHUB_REPO=github-commenter
export GITHUB_COMMENT_TYPE=pr
export GITHUB_PR_ISSUE_NUMBER=1
export GITHUB_COMMENT_FORMAT="My comment:<br/>{{.}}"
export GITHUB_COMMENT="+1 LGTM"

./dist/bin/github-commenter

run_locally_with_command_line_args.sh

./dist/bin/github-commenter \
        -token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -owner cloudposse \
        -repo github-commenter \
        -type pr \
        -number 1 \
        -format "My comment:<br/>{{.}}" \
        -comment "+1 LGTM"

NOTE: it will download all Go dependencies and then build the program inside the container (see Dockerfile)

docker build --tag github-commenter  --no-cache=true .

run_docker_with_env_vars.sh

docker run -i --rm \
        -e GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -e GITHUB_OWNER=cloudposse \
        -e GITHUB_REPO=github-commenter \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT_TYPE=pr \
        -e GITHUB_PR_ISSUE_NUMBER=1 \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT_FORMAT="My comment:<br/>{{.}}" \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT="+1 LGTM" \
        github-commenter

Run github-commenter in a Docker container with local ENV vars propagated into the container's environment. run_docker_with_local_env_vars.sh

export GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export GITHUB_OWNER=cloudposse
export GITHUB_REPO=github-commenter
export GITHUB_COMMENT_TYPE=pr
export GITHUB_PR_ISSUE_NUMBER=1
export GITHUB_COMMENT_FORMAT="Helm diff:<br><br><pre>{{regexReplaceAllLiteral `\\n` . `<br>` }}<pre>"
export GITHUB_COMMENT="Helm diff comment"

docker run -i --rm \
        -e GITHUB_TOKEN \
        -e GITHUB_OWNER \
        -e GITHUB_REPO \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT_TYPE \
        -e GITHUB_PR_ISSUE_NUMBER \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT_FORMAT \
        -e GITHUB_COMMENT \
        github-commenter

Run the github-commenter in a Docker container with ENV vars declared in a file. run_docker_with_env_vars_file.sh

docker run -i --rm --env-file ./example.env github-commenter

Delete all previous comments on Pull Request #2 that contain the string test1 in the body of the comments and create a new PR comment

./dist/bin/github-commenter \
        -token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -owner cloudposse \
        -repo github-commenter \
        -type pr \
        -number 2 \
        -format "{{.}}" \
        -delete-comment-regex "test1" \
        -comment "New Pull Request comment"

Delete all previous comments on Issue #1 that contain the string test2 at the end of the comment's body and create a new Issue comment

./dist/bin/github-commenter \
        -token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -owner cloudposse \
        -repo github-commenter \
        -type issue \
        -number 1 \
        -format "{{.}}" \
        -delete-comment-regex "test2$" \
        -comment "New Issue comment"

Delete all previous commit comments that contain the string test3 in the body and create a new commit comment

./dist/bin/github-commenter \
        -token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -owner cloudposse \
        -repo github-commenter \
        -type commit \
        -sha xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \
        -format "{{.}}" \
        -delete-comment-regex "test3" \
        -comment "New commit comment"

Delete all previous comments on a Pull Request file doc.txt that contain the string test4 in the body of the comments and create a new comment on the file

./dist/bin/github-commenter \
        -token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
        -owner cloudposse \
        -repo github-commenter \
        -type pr-file \
        -sha xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \
        -number 2 \
        -file doc.txt \
        -position 1 \
        -format "{{.}}" \
        -delete-comment-regex "test4" \
        -comment "New comment on the PR file"

The -edit-comment-regex flag operates similarly to the -delete-comment-regex except existing comments will be updated instead of deleted. If no matching comment is found a new comment is created.

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