One-click GitHub Actions workflow for automatic Vercel deployments. Perfect for open source projects!

• ✅ External contributors push → Automatic Vercel deployment
• ✅ You push → No deployment (you control manually)
• ✅ Pure deployment → No build steps, just triggers Vercel
• ✅ Works with any project → Node.js, Python, Go, static sites, anything Vercel supports

1. Go to Vercel Dashboard
2. Your Project → Settings → Git → Deploy Hooks
3. Create Hook → Copy the URL

1. Your repo → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions
2. New repository secret:
   • Name: VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK
   • Value: Your hook URL

name: Auto Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to Vercel
        uses: Gourav2609/vercel-auto-deploy@v1
        with:
          exclude-authors: 'YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME'
          vercel-deploy-hook: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK }}

Replace YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME with your GitHub username.

That's it! Now when anyone else pushes to main, it auto-deploys. When you push, it doesn't.

Want to exclude more users? Add them to the with: section:

with:
  exclude-authors: 'YOUR_USERNAME,github-actions[bot],dependabot[bot]'  # Skip these users
  vercel-deploy-hook: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK }}

❌ "Input required and not supplied: vercel-deploy-hook"

• Check you added the secret with exact name VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK

❌ "Build failed"

• This workflow only triggers deployment - if your Vercel build fails, check your Vercel dashboard

❌ "Deployment not triggered"

• Verify your username is in exclude-authors
• Confirm push was to main branch

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

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