Wait for a random amount of time

This is a very simple GitHub action that lets you wait for a random amount of time in seconds. This is useful for workflows that have many parallel jobs and you want to avoid them all hitting the same API at the same time.

I ran into this when I was trying to use the excellent schneegans/dynamic-badges-action to generate a badge for my GitHub action. I wanted to use the action to generate a badge that showed the status of the across a matrix of twelve jobs. However, I kept running into 500 errors from the API. I realized that the API was probably rate limiting me because I was hitting it with twelve requests at the same time. I decided to use this action to add a random delay to each job so that they would hit the API at different times.

Inputs

name	type	default	required
minimum	integer	1	no
maximum	integer	10	no

Outputs

name	type	description
wait_time	integer	The amount of time in seconds that the action waited

Example usage

Simple Specification

name: Random Wait
uses: AliSajid/random-wait-action@v2

Pinned SHA version with explicit parameters

name: Add Random Waiting Time
uses: AliSajid/random-wait-action@f9109712daa7a8103f7be16b68634b9d376587a7 # v2.4.1
with:
    minimum: 1
    maximum: 10

License

This original source code of this project is licensed under the MIT License. Other non-essential files are licensed under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication and the author(s) dedicate them to the public domain.