Question

A teammate reports that a workflow run from three days ago produced a build artifact named 'release-bundle', but the run's UI page no longer shows a download link under the Artifacts section. You need to retrieve that artifact programmatically for an audit. Assuming the artifact has not exceeded its retention period, which approach correctly downloads it via the GitHub REST API?

Accepted Answer

Call 'GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/artifacts' to find the artifact's id, then GET '/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/artifacts/{artifact_id}/zip' following the redirect to download the archive.

Answer

Call 'GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/logs' which returns the artifacts bundled alongside the run logs as a single zip.

Answer

Re-run the workflow job with the 'actions/download-artifact' action, since artifacts can only be retrieved by a live workflow step, never through the API.

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Call 'GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/caches' and filter by the artifact name to locate and download the stored bundle.