Get workflow run inputs using API

[gilad-yadgar]

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Is there any way to get the inputs that were used in a workflow dispatch run?
Its not available in the actions/runs API- https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/workflow-runs?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-a-workflow-run
Without this, I am unable to build a dashboard to analyze the performance / error ratio of workflows (based on inputs)
Is this planned to be available?

[b8zeek]

Currently, GitHub Actions does not provide a direct way to fetch the inputs used in a workflow dispatch run via their API. The actions/runs API does not include this information in the response.

A possible workaround is to log the inputs at the start of the workflow run, and then use the actions/list-workflow-run-logs API to fetch the logs for a specific run. Bare in mind, this requires parsing the logs to extract the input values, which can be cumbersome.

Hope this helps solving the issue. Take care. 🍺

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[shanu2698]

This solution is for Get workflow environment using API

I couldn't find anything for input but in my case luckily my input was consumed by "environment:"
so I started looking for environment instead which again was complex and finally ended up with this solution:
look out for ["jobs_url"] for that workflow run using REST API, in the response code look out for ["check_run_url"] perform a request to that url and in the response you should see following keys ["deployment"]["environment"]

Not the solution @gilad-yadgar was looking for but yes this should be helpful to others who has same coincidence as mine !

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[marek1990kaminski]

BUMP!
In December 2024 I also need this (or similar) functionality:
maybe return the run id from call to create_dispatch()?