Does this action only work on Public Repo's?

[mchittineni]

Does this action only work on public repositories? When I tried using it with our organization, it only processed a public repository and generated a report for it. However, when I attempted to run the action on a specific private repository within the organization, it failed, returning the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/action/workspace/contributors.py", line 182, in <module> main() File "/action/workspace/contributors.py", line 36, in main contributors = get_all_contributors( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/action/workspace/contributors.py", line [10](https://github.com/Uni-of-Exeter/digital.devops.sandpit/actions/runs/10390082883/job/28769708850#step:4:11)4, in get_all_contributors owner, repo_name = repo.split("/") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

Here is my complete workflow file:

`
steps:

- name: Get dates for last month
  run: |
    # Calculate the first date of the previous month
    first_date=$(date -d "last month" +%Y-%m-01)

    # Calculate the last date of the previous month
    last_date=$(date -d "$first_date +1 month -1 day" +%Y-%m-%d)

    # Set an environment variable with the date range
    echo "START_DATE=$first_date" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
    echo "END_DATE=$last_date" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
    echo "last_month=$first_date..$last_date" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

- name: Run contributor action
  uses: github/contributors@v1
  env:
    GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    START_DATE: ${{ env.START_DATE }}
    END_DATE: ${{ env.END_DATE }}
    REPOSITORY: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}

- name: Create Report for GitHub Contributors
  uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v5
  with:
    title: Monthly Contributor's Report
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    content-filepath: ./contributors.md
    assignees: xxxxx`

[zkoppert]

Can you check that github.event.repository.name has a value and its format is owner/repo? More specifically I suspect that the value has no / character in it.

The stack trace leads me to believe that is where the problem is occurring for you.

[mchittineni]

Hi, it's returning a correct value (i.e name of the repo only without the org. name).

[zkoppert]

The action is expecting to see the org name and the slash in there as well. Can you choose a different variable or manually put the full name (owner/repo) in there. That is why the code is failing to execute.

For example:

REPOSITORY: github/contributors

[mchittineni]

i just gave a try with the org/repo name

and this is. what it cam up with

Error getting contributors for repository: xxxxx/yyyyyy 403 Resource not accessible by integration

Error getting contributors for repository: xxxxx/yyyyyy 403 Resource not accessible by integration

Even though there was a error, the issue was created with a empty metric as follows:

[mchittineni]

got it, the workflow needed a PAT Token to make it work. When i have added the PAT to the workflow it gave me the metrics as expected.

[zkoppert]

Wohoo! Glad its working!

[mchittineni]

Even without a PAT Token, a GitHub Token with these permissions will also work

permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: read
  contents: read