upload-artifact/merge

@actions/upload-artifact/merge

Merge multiple Actions Artifacts in Workflow Runs. Internally powered by @actions/artifact package.

• @actions/upload-artifact/merge
  • Usage
    • Inputs
    • Outputs
  • Examples
    • Combining all artifacts in a workflow run
    • Prefix directories in merged artifact
    • Deleting artifacts after merge
    • Retention and Compression Level

Usage

Important

upload-artifact/merge@v4+ is not currently supported on GHES.

Note: this actions can only merge artifacts created with actions/upload-artifact@v4+

This sub-action is a helper to merge multiple artifacts after they are created. To do so, it will download multiple artifacts to a temporary directory and reupload them as a single artifact.

For most cases, this may not be the most efficient solution. See the migration docs on how to download multiple artifacts to the same directory on a runner. This action should only be necessary for cases where multiple artifacts will need to be downloaded outside the runner environment, like downloads via the UI or REST API.

Inputs

- uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4
  with:
    # The name of the artifact that the artifacts will be merged into
    # Optional. Default is 'merged-artifacts'
    name:

    # A glob pattern matching the artifacts that should be merged.
    # Optional. Default is '*'
    pattern:

    # If true, the artifacts will be merged into separate directories.
    # If false, the artifacts will be merged into the root of the destination.
    # Optional. Default is 'false'
    separate-directories:

    # If true, the artifacts that were merged will be deleted.
    # If false, the artifacts will still exist.
    # Optional. Default is 'false'
    delete-merged:

    # Duration after which artifact will expire in days. 0 means using default retention.
    # Minimum 1 day.
    # Maximum 90 days unless changed from the repository settings page.
    # Optional. Defaults to repository settings.
    retention-days:

    # The level of compression for Zlib to be applied to the artifact archive.
    # The value can range from 0 to 9.
    # For large files that are not easily compressed, a value of 0 is recommended for significantly faster uploads.
    # Optional. Default is '6'
    compression-level:

Outputs

Name	Description	Example
artifact-id	GitHub ID of an Artifact, can be used by the REST API	1234
artifact-url	URL to download an Artifact. Can be used in many scenarios such as linking to artifacts in issues or pull requests. Users must be logged-in in order for this URL to work. This URL is valid as long as the artifact has not expired or the artifact, run or repository have not been deleted	https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/actions/runs/1/artifacts/1234

Examples

For each of these examples, assume we have a prior job matrix that generates three artifacts: my-artifact-a, my-artifact-b and my-artifact-c.

e.g.

jobs:
  upload:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        foo: [a, b, c]

    steps:
      - name: Run a one-line script
        run: echo "hello from job ${{ matrix.foo }}" > file-${{ matrix.foo }}.txt
      - name: Upload
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: my-artifact-${{ matrix.foo }}
          path: file-${{ matrix.foo }}.txt

Each of the following examples will use the needs: upload as a prerequisite before any merging operations.

Combining all artifacts in a workflow run

By default (with no inputs), calling this action will take all the artifacts in the workflow run and combined them into a single artifact called merged-artifacts:

jobs:
  # ... <upload job> ...
  merge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: upload
    steps:
      - name: Merge Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4

This will result in an artifact called merged-artifacts with the following content:

.
  ∟ file-a.txt
  ∟ file-b.txt
  ∟ file-c.txt

To change the name of the artifact and filter on what artifacts are added, you can use the name and pattern inputs:

jobs:
  # ... <upload job> ...
  merge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: upload
    steps:
      - name: Merge Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4
        with:
          name: my-amazing-merged-artifact
          pattern: my-artifact-*

Prefix directories in merged artifact

To prevent overwriting files in artifacts that may have the same name, you can use the separate-directories to prefix the extracted files with directories (named after the original artifact):

jobs:
  # ... <upload job> ...
  merge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: upload
    steps:
      - name: Merge Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4
        with:
          separate-directories: true

This will result in the following artifact structure:

.
  ∟ my-artifact-a
    ∟ file-a.txt
  ∟ my-artifact-b
    ∟ file-b.txt
  ∟ my-artifact-c
    ∟ file-c.txt

Deleting artifacts after merge

After merge, the old artifacts may no longer be required. To automatically delete them after they are merged into a new artifact, you can use delete-merged like so:

jobs:
  # ... <upload job> ...
  merge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: upload
    steps:
      - name: Merge Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4
        with:
          delete-merged: true

After this runs, the matching artifact (my-artifact-a, my-artifact-b and my-artifact-c) will be merged.

Retention and Compression Level

Similar to actions/upload-artifact, both retention-days and compression-level are supported:

jobs:
  # ... <upload job> ...
  merge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: upload
    steps:
      - name: Merge Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact/merge@v4
        with:
          retention-days: 1
          compression-level: 9