Akul Srivastava

Passing data to next steps

In cases where we need to pass some information from one step to next step, we can do it as follows with the help of @actions/core

name: Passing data between steps

on: [push]

jobs:
  passing-data-between-steps:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Passing data between steps
        id: step-1
        uses: actions/github-script@v6
        with:
          script: |
            const authorName = context.payload.head_commit.author.name;
            core.setOutput("authorMsg", `The author of this is ${authorName}`);

      - name: Print author message
        run: echo ${{ steps.step-1.outputs.authorMsg }}

Result

Following is the output for the above workflow-