Trigger a GitHub action when adding or removing someone from a team

Question

I'm currently managing the access to a specific computer using the users from a team in GitHub. I periodically run the action that does the synchronization but this is is far from optimal. I would like to be able to trigger a GitHub action whenever I add or remove a member in a specific team. I have already checked https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows but no event there seems to do exactly this. Is there any workaround to solve this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65887089/trigger-a-github-action-when-adding-or-removing-someone-from-a-team

Answer 1

You need an application that can receive and process webhooks.

Create a webhook for the membership event in the organisation you want to monitor.

Create a GitHub Actions workflow with the trigger repository_dispatch.

On receiving the webhook in your application, create a repository dispatch event via the GitHub REST API to trigger the workflow you created.