Send updates from your workflows to a Twist channel

Twist allows you to quickly set up inbound webhooks for posting messages.

To get a TWIST_URL go to https://twist.com/app_console/ and create an app with either Thread or Channel integration.

Thread integration: post your message from GitHub to the same thread as a new message (probably what you want)

Channel integration: creates a new thread with a new message each time (probably not what you want)

All you need to add is the "Integration name" and make note of the "Shareable Install URL" (ignore the Webhooks and Bot sections).

Visit the install URL to pick which channel and thread you want to target (create them beforehand).

Save and note the "Post content manually" URL from the integration - save it as TWIST_URL in GitHub secrets.

Existing installations can be managed at https://twist.com/integrations/manage/

Twist dev documentation: https://developer.twist.com/v3/#integrations

You need to install the app from above into each thread you want to target from GitHub actions and save the URLs into separate secrets.

To try the action

• save the following file as .github/workflows/try-twist-notify.yaml
• create a repo secret TWIST_URL (see above)

Then you can run the workflow manually

name: Send a test message
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      topic:
        description: "The topic to create"
        required: false
        type: string
        default: "Test"
      message:
        description: "The markdown message to send"
        required: false
        type: string
        default: "Hello"
jobs:
  message:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Notify Twist
        uses: thekarel/twist-notify@main
        with:
          # topic is ignored when using a Thread integration
          topic: ${{ inputs.topic }}
          message: ${{ inputs.message }}
          url: ${{ secrets.TWIST_URL }}

You can post markdown messages:

message: 👍 Deployed ${{ inputs.workload }} to ${{ inputs.stage }} [🔗](${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }})