Automation: triggering a Snapshot from a GitHub Action

We are showing here an example of how the Jira Snapshots API can be called from using Python codes that is triggered from a GitHub Action.
Similar implementations can be done in any language, so this example is given for the sake of demonstration.
Prerequisites:

A Jira Snapshot exists, and it has each API enabled as explained on this page.
The Api Key is known, and set by an environment variable (in the code snippet, “SNAPSHOT_APIKEY”)
The web request endpoint is available through the environment variable (in the code snippet, “SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL”)

A snippet of the GitHub Workflow file:

name: RadBee-Sandbox Test

on: 
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      snapshots_web_request_url:
        description: 'Snapshots web request url'
        required: true
        type: string
      snapshots_apikey:
        description: 'Snapshots api key'
        required: true
        type: string

permissions:
    contents: read

env:
  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.11'
  SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL: ${{ inputs.snapshots_web_request_url }}
  SNAPSHOTS_APIKEY: ${{ inputs.snapshots_apikey }}

jobs:
  build:
      runs-on: macos-latest
      steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: 
          pip install requests
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          python tests/take_snapshot.py

And this is the snippet of the Python program:

import requests
import os


def take_snapshot():
    print("Start taking snapshot...")
    url = os.environ["SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL"]
    headers = {"jira-snapshots-api-key": os.environ["SNAPSHOTS_APIKEY"]}
    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("Snapshot was triggered successfully!")
    else:
        print(f"Error on taking snapshot: {response.status_code}")


# run
if __name__ == "__main__":
    take_snapshot()