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Add output for arbitrary crowdin CLI commands #299

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#302
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Add output for arbitrary crowdin CLI commands#299
#302
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@r-chumachenko
r-chumachenko
opened on Dec 23, 2025

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In our flow we need to read Crowd In branches to decide on the next steps. For it, we are using with.command: 'branch list'. Yet I cannot get output of command in the following steps.

Describe the solution you'd like
Extend outputs of action with extra field command_output so that users can handle output.

Describe alternatives you've considered
As blunt as it sounds I've tried adding output redirection to the file like this: with.command: 'branch list > out.txt' or command_args: '> out.txt'. Which obviously fails.

Additional context
I am trying to achieve something similar to native Crowd In + GH integration: pull every branch on Crowd In into respective localization branch in git.

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  1. r-chumachenko
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    on Dec 23, 2025

  2. andrii-bodnar commented on Dec 23, 2025

    @andrii-bodnar
    andrii-bodnar
    on Dec 23, 2025
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    I like the idea! We should probably combine it with the --plain parameter to make the output more readable for machine and easier to process.

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    on Dec 23, 2025
  4. andrii-bodnar
    added a commit that references this issue on Jan 13, 2026

    feat: add command_output for arbitrary CLI commands

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  5. andrii-bodnar commented on Jan 13, 2026

    @andrii-bodnar
    andrii-bodnar
    on Jan 13, 2026
    Member

    Hi @r-chumachenko,

    The command_output output has been implemented and is available for testing (#302)

    You can try it out by using the action from the feat/add-command-output branch:

    - name: List branches
  id: crowdin
  uses: crowdin/github-action@feat/add-command-output
  with:
    command: 'branch list'
    # your other options...

- name: Use command output
  run: echo "${{ steps.crowdin.outputs.command_output }}"

    Please let us know if it works as expected for your use case. Any feedback is appreciated!

  6. r-chumachenko commented on Jan 14, 2026

    @r-chumachenko
    r-chumachenko
    on Jan 14, 2026
    Author

    Hi @andrii-bodnar ,

    Thank you so much! Honestly, I wasn't expecting it to be added so fast. At that point we've moved on to use CrowdIn CLI directly from our host machine. It was both due to inability to use command output from action + hard requirement to use Linux runners which was a bit of a deal breaker as our team has only self hosted macs at the moment.

    But we may consider going back to using action upon extending our Crowd In automation

  7. r-chumachenko
    closed this as completedon Jan 14, 2026

  8. andrii-bodnar commented on Jan 14, 2026

    @andrii-bodnar
    andrii-bodnar
    on Jan 14, 2026
    Member

    @r-chumachenko thank you for the details! About MacOS runners support - it's a known limitation for the GitHub Action type we use (container action), unfortunately. I investigated this some time ago in #261, but was unsuccessful.

  9. r-chumachenko commented on Jan 14, 2026

    @r-chumachenko
    r-chumachenko
    on Jan 14, 2026
    Author

    Yeah, monitoring that issue as well. Thank you for your time and effort though ❤️

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