UV with GitHub Actions to run an RSS to README project. Jeff Triplett demonstrates a very neat pattern for using uv to run Python scripts with their dependencies inside of GitHub Actions. First, add uv
to the workflow using the setup-uv action:
- uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v3
with:
enable-cache: true
cache-dependency-glob: "*.py"
This enables the caching feature, which stores uv's own cache of downloads from PyPI between runs. The cache-dependency-glob
key ensures that this cache will be invalidated if any .py
file in the repository is updated.
Now you can run Python scripts using steps that look like this:
- run: uv run fetch-rss.py
If that Python script begins with some dependency definitions (PEP 723) they will be automatically installed by uv run
on the first run and reused from the cache in the future. From the start of fetch-rss.py:
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.11"
# dependencies = [
# "feedparser",
# "typer",
# ]
# ///
uv
will download the required Python version and cache that as well.
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