This is a very simple github action that lets you wait for a random amount of time in seconds. This is useful for workflows that have a lot of parallel jobs and you want to avoid them all hitting the same API at the same time.

I ran into this when I was trying to use the excellent schneegans/dynamic-badges-action to generate a badge for my github action. I wanted to use the action to generate a badge that showed the status of the across a matrix of twelve jobs. However, I kept running into 500 errors from the API. I realized that the API was probably rate limiting me because I was hitting it with twelve requests at the same time. I decided to use this action to add a random delay to each job so that they would hit the API at different times.

name: Random Wait
uses: AliSajid/random-wait-action@v1
with:
    minimum: 1
    maximum: 10

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