Github Action to get the current job URL

Here’s a Github Action to get the URL to the current job and specific step in the job to open. This is useful for giving users a direct link to specific jobs.

name: Get current job URL
description: Output the current Github Workflow Job URL
inputs:
  step_name:
    description: Specific job step to include in the URL
    required: true
outputs:
  job_url:
    description: "URL to the calling job and specific input step"
    value: ${{steps.get_job_url.outputs.job_url}}
runs:
  using: "composite"
  steps:
    - id: get_job_url
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{github.token}}
      shell: bash
      run: |
        echo "job_url=$(gh run --repo ${{github.repository}} view ${{github.run_id}} \
          --json jobs \
          --jq '.jobs[]
            | select(.name == "${{github.job}}")
            | .url,
            (
              .steps[]
              | select(.name == "${{inputs.step_name}}")
              | "#step:\(.number):1"
            )' \
          | tr -d "\n")" | tee "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

The key part is this bash script which uses the gh CLI tool’s --jq option to extract the URL:

echo "job_url=$(gh run --repo ${{github.repository}} view ${{github.run_id}} \
  --json jobs \
  --jq '.jobs[]
  | select(.name == "${{github.job}}")
  | .url,
  (
    .steps[]
    | select(.name == "${{inputs.step_name}}")
    | "#step:\(.number):1"
  )' \
  | tr -d "\n")" | tee "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

You can access this job URL output in other Github Action steps via ${{steps.job_url.outputs.job_url}}, like this:

# ...
jobs:
  foobar:
    steps:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/job_url
        id: job_url
        with:
          step_name: 'some_step'
      - shell: bash
        run: |
          echo "${{steps.job_url.outputs.job_url}}"

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