Automatically close issues or pull requests whose body text does not match the specified regular expression pattern. This is useful to enforce usage of issue/PR templates.

To configure the action simply add the following lines to your .github/main.workflow workflow file:

name: Autocloser
on: [issues, pull_request]
jobs:
  autoclose:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Autoclose issues that did not follow issue template
      uses: roots/[email protected]
      with:
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        issue-close-message: "@${issue.user.login} this issue was automatically closed because it did not follow the issue template"
        issue-pattern: ".*guidelines for Contributing.*"

issue-close-message and pr-close-message are ES6-style template literals which will be evaluated with the issue or pull request webhook payload in context. The example above uses ${issue.user.login} to get the author of the issue.

• issue webhook payload example
• pull_request webhook payload example

issue-pattern and pr-pattern are strings which are compiled to JavaScript Regexps.