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# Close Stale Issues and PRs
Warns and then closes issues and PRs that have had no activity for a specified amount of time.
### Arguments
| Input | Description | Usage |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- |
| `repo-token` | PAT(Personal Access Token) for authorizing repository. _Defaults to **${{ github.token }}**_ | Optional |
| `days-before-stale` | Idle number of days before marking an issue/PR as stale. _Defaults to **60**_ | Optional |
| `days-before-issue-stale` | Idle number of days before marking an issue as stale (override `days-before-stale`). | Optional |
| `days-before-pr-stale` | Idle number of days before marking an PR as stale (override `days-before-stale`). | Optional |
| `days-before-close` | Idle number of days before closing an stale issue/PR. _Defaults to **7**_ | Optional |
| `days-before-issue-close` | Idle number of days before closing an stale issue (override `days-before-close`). | Optional |
| `days-before-pr-close` | Idle number of days before closing an stale PR (override `days-before-close`). | Optional |
| `stale-issue-message` | Message to post on the stale issue. | Optional |
| `stale-pr-message` | Message to post on the stale PR. | Optional |
| `close-issue-message` | Message to post on the stale issue while closing it. | Optional |
| `close-pr-message` | Message to post on the stale PR while closing it. | Optional |
| `stale-issue-label` | Label to apply on the stale issue. _Defaults to **stale**_ | Optional |
| `close-issue-label` | Label to apply on closing issue. | Optional |
| `stale-pr-label` | Label to apply on the stale PR. | Optional |
| `close-pr-label` | Label to apply on the closing PR. | Optional |
| `exempt-issue-labels` | Labels on an issue exempted from being marked as stale. | Optional |
| `exempt-pr-labels` | Labels on the PR exempted from being marked as stale. | Optional |
| `exempt-milestones` | Milestones on an issue or a PR exempted from being marked as stale. | Optional |
| `exempt-issue-milestones` | Milestones on an issue exempted from being marked as stale (override `exempt-milestones`). | Optional |
| `exempt-pr-milestones` | Milestones on the PR exempted from being marked as stale (override `exempt-milestones`). | Optional |
| `exempt-all-milestones` | Exempt all issues and PRs with milestones from being marked as stale. (priority over `exempt-milestones` rules) | Optional |
| `exempt-all-issue-milestones` | Exempt all issues with milestones from being marked as stale. (override `exempt-all-milestones`). | Optional |
| `exempt-all-pr-milestones` | Exempt all PRs with milestones from being marked as stale. (override `exempt-all-milestones`). | Optional |
| `only-labels` | Only labels checked for stale issue/PR. | Optional |
| `operations-per-run` | Maximum number of operations per run (GitHub API CRUD related). _Defaults to **30**_ | Optional |
| `remove-stale-when-updated` | Remove stale label from issue/PR on updates or comments. _Defaults to **true**_ | Optional |
| `debug-only` | Dry-run on action. _Defaults to **false**_ | Optional |
| `ascending` | Order to get issues/PR. _Defaults to **false**_ | Optional |
| `skip-stale-issue-message` | Skip adding stale message on stale issue. _Defaults to **false**_ | Optional |
| `skip-stale-pr-message` | Skip adding stale message on stale PR. _Defaults to **false**_ | Optional |
| `start-date` | The date used to skip the stale action on issue/PR created before it (ISO 8601 or RFC 2822). | Optional |
| `delete-branch` | Delete the git branch after closing a stale pull request. _Defaults to **false**_ | Optional |
### Usage
See [action.yml](./action.yml) For comprehensive list of options.
Basic:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
stale-issue-message: 'Message to comment on stale issues. If none provided, will not mark issues stale'
stale-pr-message: 'Message to comment on stale PRs. If none provided, will not mark PRs stale'
```
Configure stale timeouts:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.'
days-before-stale: 30
days-before-close: 5
```
Configure different stale timeouts but never close a PR:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PR'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.'
stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.'
close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 5 days with no activity.'
days-before-stale: 30
days-before-close: 5
days-before-pr-close: -1
```
Configure different stale timeouts:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.'
stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.'
close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 5 days with no activity.'
close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 10 days with no activity.'
days-before-issue-stale: 30
days-before-pr-stale: 45
days-before-issue-close: 5
days-before-pr-close: 10
```
Configure labels:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
stale-issue-message: 'Stale issue message'
stale-pr-message: 'Stale pull request message'
stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
exempt-issue-labels: 'awaiting-approval,work-in-progress'
stale-pr-label: 'no-pr-activity'
exempt-pr-labels: 'awaiting-approval,work-in-progress'
only-labels: 'awaiting-feedback,awaiting-answers'
```
Configure the stale action to only stale issue/PR created after the 18th april 2020:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
start-date: '2020-18-04T00:00:00Z' // ISO 8601 or RFC 2822
```
Avoid stale for specific milestones:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
exempt-issue-milestones: 'future,alpha,beta'
exempt-pr-milestones: 'bugfix,improvement'
```
Avoid stale for all PR with milestones:
```yaml
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 1 * * *'
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v3
with:
exempt-all-pr-milestones: true
```
### Debugging
To see the debug output from this action, you must set the secret `ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG` to `true` in your repository.
You can run this action in debug only mode (no actions will be taken on your issues and pull requests) by passing `debug-only` to `true` as an argument to the action.
You can also increase the maximum number of operations per run by passing `operations-per-run` to `100` for example.
Finally, you could also change the cron job frequency in the stale workflow to run stale more often.
### Contributing
You wish to contribute?
Check out the [contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) file before helping us.