[whoisjuan]

Without a CLI you can't automate. (I guess you could, but it will be a pain in the ass)

[bewuethr]

There was the option to use curl and the GitHub API, but the CLI wraps that very conveniently in the "api" subcommand.

[azangru]

Huh? Github actions have been around for over a year, and Github webhooks since I can't remember when.

[whoisjuan]

Not really sure what you're talking about. Not everything you automate on GitHub happens in the context of a CI pipeline like in GitHub Actions. There are many cases for small scripts where you just need to execute a couple of commands.

[GormHouj]

Yeah, and this is the correct way to automate anything relating to github. Their API is insane.

[hjdarnel]

...unless you use their CLI wrapper over the API (as in this post) :)