Question

A teammate reports that a nightly workflow named 'build-and-package' produced a broken installer. You know the workflow completed three hours ago but you only have the workflow file name, not the specific run. Using the GitHub REST API, what is the correct sequence to retrieve and download the artifact produced by that latest completed run?

Accepted Answer

List workflow runs filtered by the workflow file to get the run_id, list artifacts for that run to get the artifact_id, then GET the artifact's zip download endpoint following the redirect

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Call the download-artifact endpoint directly with the workflow file name, since artifacts are keyed by workflow name rather than run

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List repository artifacts, match the artifact by its creation timestamp, then use the workflow file name as the download key

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GET the workflow logs endpoint for the workflow file, which returns both the logs and any artifacts in a single zip