::error::Pull request not found

[brad-getpassport]

Trying out act for the first time.

1. Installed via brew
2. cd into existing repo
3. ran act to setup a MEDIUM image
4. ran the following command: act pull_request -s GITHUB_TOKEN --defaultbranch main

Get the following errors:

INFO[0001]   ☁  git clone 'https://github.com/CondeNast/conventional-pull-request-action' # ref=v0.1.2 
[Pull Request/Lint PR title                       ]   🐳  docker cp src=/Users/bpost/.cache/act/CondeNast-conventional-pull-request-action@v0.1.2/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/CondeNast-conventional-pull-request-action@v0.1.2/
[Pull Request/Lint PR title                       ]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[mkdir -p /var/run/act/actions/CondeNast-conventional-pull-request-action@v0.1.2/] user= workdir=
[Pull Request/Lint PR title                       ]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/CondeNast-conventional-pull-request-action@v0.1.2/dist/index.js] user= workdir=
[Pull Request/Lint PR title                       ]   ❗  ::error::Pull request not found. Use pull request event to trigger this action
[Pull Request/Lint PR title                       ]   ❌  Failure - CondeNast/conventional-pull-request-action@v0.1.2

When I run the act -l pull_request I get the following:

Stage  Job ID  Job name                                               Workflow name  Workflow file     Events      
0      pr      Lint PR title                                          Pull Request   pull-request.yml  pull_request
1      check   Check Python ${{ matrix.python }} on ${{ matrix.os }}  Pull Request   pull-request.yml  pull_request

Ideas?

[catthehacker]

https://github.com/nektos/act/wiki/Beginner's-guide#using-event-file-to-provide-complete-event-payload

[brad-getpassport]

Doh! Maybe add a link to the README for the guide ;-)
Sorry didn't see it in the wiki...
Thanks.

[catthehacker]

It's https://github.com/nektos/act#events in README
It will be linked to wiki once we're sure that wiki has better quality than current README

[catthehacker]

Also I think that action will not work properly with act since it uses GitHub API to look for the pull request that triggered it

[brad-getpassport]

okay thanks... trying to debug a pull_request action that seems to have stopped working so was hoping this could help...

[ipatch]

https://github.com/nektos/act/wiki/Beginner's-guide#using-event-file-to-provide-complete-event-payload

that link is redirecting now. is there an updated link?

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ahh, i guess that info was moved to the user guide section of the website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230629084908/https://github.com/nektos/act/wiki/Beginner's-guide#using-event-file-to-provide-complete-event-payload