The roots-discourse-post-release-action is a JavaScript action that can post published GitHub releases from a repository to a Discourse instance.

We use this on our main projects to automatically post releases to Roots Discourse.

name: Post release topic on Discourse

on:
  release:
    types: [published]

jobs:
  post:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: roots/discourse-topic-github-release-action@main
      with:
        discourse-api-key: ${{ secrets.DISCOURSE_RELEASES_API_KEY }}
        discourse-base-url: ${{ secrets.DISCOURSE_BASE_URL }}
        discourse-author-username: ben
        discourse-category: 11
        discourse-tags:
          releases

Required Discourse API key. Use a GitHub secret for this value.

Required Discourse base URL. Use a GitHub secret for this value.

Username used for creating the topic on Discourse.

Default: system

Category ID used for creating the topic on Discourse.

Tags applied to the topic when creating the topic on Discourse.