Pull Request Closed

[sadiefp]

Is there a way to specify a pull request closed event?

I am sorry if this is documented, but I looked through discussions and documentation and I'm unsure if this is possible

[wellkilo]

Yes. The event name remains pull_request; the “closed” part comes from the event payload's action field.

Create an event.json containing at least the fields your workflow/actions read, for example:

{
  "action": "closed",
  "number": 42,
  "pull_request": {
    "number": 42,
    "merged": true,
    "base": { "ref": "main" },
    "head": { "ref": "feature", "sha": "YOUR_HEAD_SHA" }
  },
  "repository": {
    "default_branch": "main",
    "full_name": "owner/repo"
  }
}

Then run:

act pull_request -e event.json

For a closed-but-not-merged PR set pull_request.merged to false. This allows conditions such as these to behave correctly:

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]

if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true

-e is the short form of --eventpath (“path to event JSON file”) in act's CLI definition. act copies that payload to GITHUB_EVENT_PATH and uses the positional pull_request argument for workflow planning.

If an action reads more of the GitHub webhook schema, use a real sanitized pull_request.closed webhook payload rather than the minimal example. You can save one from GitHub's webhook delivery view or from gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/pulls/42 and wrap/add the action and repository fields.