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Use an action from the Marketplace

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Use an action from the Marketplace

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- [Instructor] To quote a description from GitHub, the marketplace contains tools that add functionality and improve your workflow. In our case, this is literally true because the marketplace has actions we can add to actual workflows. Let's take a look at how we can find an action in the marketplace and add it to a new workflow in a repository. I'm working in a new repository with a Python script. Along with that, I have the beginnings of a workflow. I'll open the workflow by clicking the workflows directory, and then clicking the workflow file to open it. Now I'll click the pencil icon to edit it. This opens up the workflow in the GitHub web editor. From the web editor, we get easy access to the marketplace. On the right, there's a list of featured actions ready to be inserted into our workflow. These featured actions may be different on your screen and may also change from time to time. I guess that's GitHub keeping things…

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