google drive access in github action using googledrive package

[andyb]

I am trying to access google drive using the googledrive package by Jenny Bryan.
While i can do this in Rstudio, i cant seem to figure out how to do this in a GitHub action.

The function i would expect to use can not be used in a github action for obvious reasons.

 drive_auth_configure(api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE") 

If the api_key was saved as a secret in the repo how would it get used?

Are there better alternatives to doing this? I have found 3rd party actions to do this but the repos dont seem to be currenlty developed. I was hoping the Rstudio folks would have an action to do this in their suite of other awesome actions.

Any help in understanding how to do this would be welcomed?

[Gabor]

This is not GHA, but it is potentially very similar to what you want: GitHub - jennybc/googledrive-deployed-token-demo-service

[randyzwitch]

It's not obvious, but the process is detailed here in the GitHub docs:

Using secrets in GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs

Essentially, you use their secrets mechanism to set an environment variable, then read that environment variable from your code.

Best,
Randy