Plugin using Github Artifacts for storage

[Jacob Rask]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Would a plugin to use Github Artifacts for storage instead of external services make sense?

Describe the solution you'd like

Artifacts can be uploaded in each workflow run using actions/upload-artifact, and downloaded by:

• getting the workflow runs for the target branch
• listing the artifacts
• downloading the artifact

[Yosuke Kurami]

We’re considering some solutions using GitHub artifacts. There’re some technical issues, but we want to provide something gh action, which does not need installing external storages.

[Markus Staab]

There’re some technical issues, but we want to provide something gh action, which does not need installing external storages.

ohh that sounds perfect.

would it be possible to post image differences directly into the github PR comment, so one would see the differences directly within the PR without the need to check an external website?

[Filip Dupanović]

@staabm I think GH will always ZIP uploaded artifacts, so it's not possible to use their storage service for viewing HTML.

From About Workflow Artifacts:

Artifacts are uploaded during a workflow run, and you can view an artifact's name and size in the UI. When an artifact is downloaded using the GitHub UI, all files that were individually uploaded as part of the artifact get zipped together into a single file. This means that billing is calculated based on the size of the uploaded artifact and not the size of the zip file.