Markdown to Output Action

GitHub Action that parses a markdown file to action output. Supports frontmatter and templating.

Usage

name: Markdown to Output
on: push
jobs:
  markdown-output:
    name: Markdown to Output
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3 
      - uses: markpatterson27/markdown-to-output@v1
        id: mto
        with:
          filepath: examples/project.md
      - run: |
          echo ${{ steps.mto.outputs.attributes }}
          echo ${{ steps.mto.outputs.body }}

Inputs

Input Name	Required	Default	Description
filepath	yes	none	Path to markdown file.

Outputs

Output Name	Description
attributes	Array of parsed front matter attributes. Attribute names are converted to lowercase kebab-case with special characters removed.
body	Main body content of file.

Additionally, each attribute name will have it’s own output.

Similar projects / Inspiration

• Markdown Meta - doesn’t output body of file, just front matter attributes
• Create an Issue Action - file processed to creating issues. no output of file data. goal to do something similar, but want to decouple the process

if just looking to read file contents to step output

- id: read-file
  run: echo "::set-output name=contents::$(cat filename.txt)" # doesn't remove CR. does remove LF :(