Mastering GitHub Actions: Getting Started with GitHub Actions from the Marketplace

In this post, we will look at how to use freely available GitHub actions from the GitHub Actions Marketplace to automatically send a tweet to X and BlueSky when an issue is closed.

Suppose you have a blog 😉, and you want to publicize the article on both platforms when a new article has been released. Well, this article explains exactly how to automate that process using GitHub actions and issues!

Of course, you could modify the workflow and details posted to suit your specific needs, the information in this article will get you started using freely available GitHub actions from the GitHub Actions Marketplace.

We will run through a step-by-step guide of how to create the Action, and the authentication steps needed on both X and Bluesky. Let's get to it!

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Create an Issue in GitHub

Click on the Issue tab in your GitHub repository (create a new one if you want to follow along with this article).

My issue has the title I want to use in my tweet (in my case the name of this blog post) — and the URL of the blog post in the description. This will be displayed as a preview link on BlueSky and X. I also add a label called ‘blog’ to the issue, we will use this to tell when…