This GitHub Action counts the number of the characters in the files that match the pattern and comments it on the pull request.

Required The GitHub Token to create a comment on a pull request.

Required A list of files, and wildcard patterns to count the number of characters. See @actions/glob for supported patterns.

This is the example of counting the number of the characters in the all markdown files under the articles directory.

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - "articles/**/*.md"

jobs:
 char-count:
   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   steps:
   - uses: actions/checokut@v2
   - uses: nobu09/action-char-count@v1.0.0
     with:
       token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       patterns: articles/**/*.md