actions/labeler

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An action for automatically labelling pull requests

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Forks: 492
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 40

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 26, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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40 open issues indexed

Feature request: top-level `ignore` list for files that should never trigger labels Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/labeler#965 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Allow labeling with no changed files Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

actions/labeler#932 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Make not finding the PR an error Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/labeler#925 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Label PR on title Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#915 · 3 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Nov 12, 2025
It's not possible to label a PR if the head branch matches a list of regexes Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#914 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Add label metadata when creating a label Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#913 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Case sensitive matching? Open

feature request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#912 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Add a label when certain globs have not been modified Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#905 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2025
Shared central label config Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#899 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2025
PR label based on a conjuction of base and head branch Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#858 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 21, 2025
Add a trigger to add `draft` label when `pull_request.draft` is `true` Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

actions/labeler#838 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 13, 2025
Labeling with other triggers Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#810 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 7, 2024
Support for labeling based on PR title Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/labeler#809 · 7 comments · 24 reactions · Opened Oct 5, 2024
Use REST API to create labels if they don't exist yet Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#807 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2024
Conditionally exclusive labels Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#800 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Very slow when many files match filter Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/labeler#798 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 4, 2024
Apply label only if it's the only change to the document Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#788 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2024
Allow for only applying a label if another label has not been applied (enumerated labels) Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#781 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 16, 2024
Update documentation to note that you can use sentences in labels Open

feature request

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#780 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 16, 2024
Add a label to the PR if the review has ended with a request to make changes Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#764 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Error when configuration is invalid Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#742 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2024
Sync-labels should not remove an unspecified label Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#741 · 3 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2024
Create dynamic labels from branch name Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#730 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 20, 2023
Simpler structure for configuration. Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#715 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2023
Dynamic label creation from path Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/labeler#708 · 3 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Nov 24, 2023
Adding label and logging when paths aren't matched Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#664 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2023
Milestone to set on pull requests Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#625 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 19, 2023
Option to preserve manually added labels Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/labeler#624 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jul 19, 2023
vcs labels Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#590 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2023
Follow CODEOWNERS file Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

actions/labeler#483 · 3 comments · 36 reactions · Opened Jan 16, 2023
(Idea) Leveraging the labeler.yml to add code pointers to newly opened (and properly labeled issues) Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#450 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2022
Variable interpolation for label Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#270 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 3, 2021
Label pull request based on the labels of linked issues Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#139 · 1 comment · 35 reactions · Opened May 4, 2021
Support using other labels as criteria Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/labeler#129 · Opened Feb 18, 2021
Add labels based of the pull request author Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#100 · 15 comments · 37 reactions · Opened Sep 21, 2020
How to set the label color Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

actions/labeler#76 · 13 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2020
Support labeling based on the pull request/commit title and messages Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#55 · 13 comments · 120 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2020
Different label based on new/changed/removed Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/labeler#47 · 5 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jan 20, 2020
Add logging to show why a label gets assigned or not. Open

enhancement needs eyes

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/labeler#23 · 5 comments · 34 reactions · Opened Sep 19, 2019
Support for issues Open

feature request needs eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/labeler#17 · 4 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Sep 1, 2019

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