Configuration¶

coveralls-python often works without any outside configuration by examining the environment it is being run in. Special handling has been added for AppVeyor, BuildKite, CircleCI, Github Actions, Jenkins, and TravisCI to make coveralls-python as close to “plug and play” as possible.

In cases where you do need to modify the configuration, we obey a very strict precedence order where the latest value is used:

first, the CI environment will be loaded
second, any environment variables will be loaded (eg. those which begin with COVERALLS_
third, the config file is loaded (eg. ./..coveralls.yml)
finally, any command line flags are evaluated

Most often, you will simply need to run coveralls-python with no additional options after you have run your coverage suite:

coveralls

If you have placed your .coveragerc in a non-standard location, you can run:

coveralls --rcfile=/path/to/coveragerc

If you would like to override the service name (auto-discovered on most CI systems, set to coveralls-python otherwise):

coveralls --service=travis-pro
# or, via env var:
COVERALLS_SERVICE_NAME=travis-pro coveralls

If you are interested in merging the coverage results between multiple languages/projects, see our multi-language documentation.

If coveralls-python is being run on TravisCI or on GitHub Actions, it will automatically set the token for communication with coveralls.io. Otherwise, you should set the environment variable COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN, which can be found on the dashboard for your project in coveralls.io:

COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN=mV2Jajb8y3c6AFlcVNagHO20fiZNkXPVy coveralls

If you are running multiple jobs in parallel and want coveralls.io to merge those results, you should set COVERALLS_PARALLEL to true in your environment:

COVERALLS_PARALLEL=true coveralls

Later on, you can use coveralls --finish to let the Coveralls service know you have completed all your parallel runs:

coveralls --finish

If you are using a non-public coveralls.io instance (for example: self-hosted Coveralls Enterprise), you can set COVERALLS_HOST to the base URL of that insance:

COVERALLS_HOST="https://coveralls.aperture.com" coveralls

In that case, you may also be interested in disabling SSL verification:

COVERALLS_SKIP_SSL_VERIFY='1' coveralls

If you are using named jobs, you can set:

COVERALLS_FLAG_NAME="insert-name-here"

You can also set any of these values in a .coveralls.yml file in the root of your project repository. If you are planning to use this method, please ensure you install coveralls[yaml] instead of just the base coveralls package.

Sample .coveralls.yml file:

service_name: travis-pro
repo_token: mV2Jajb8y3c6AFlcVNagHO20fiZNkXPVy
parallel: true
coveralls_host: https://coveralls.aperture.com

Github Actions support¶

Coveralls natively supports jobs running on Github Actions. You can directly pass the default-provided secret GITHUB_TOKEN:

env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
    coveralls

Passing a coveralls.io token via the COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN environment variable (or via the repo_token parameter in the config file) is not needed for Github Actions.

Sometimes Github Actions gets a little picky about the service name which needs to be used in various cases. If you run into issues, try setting the COVERALLS_SERVICE_NAME explicitly to either github or github-actions.

For parallel builds, you have to add a final step to let coveralls.io know the parallel build is finished:

jobs:
  test:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        test-name:
          - test1
          - test2
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Test
        run: ./run_tests.sh ${{ matrix.test-name }}
      - name: Upload coverage data to coveralls.io
        run: coveralls
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          COVERALLS_FLAG_NAME: ${{ matrix.test-name }}
          COVERALLS_PARALLEL: true
  coveralls:
    name: Indicate completion to coveralls.io
    needs: test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: python:3-slim
    steps:
    - name: Finished
      run: |
        pip3 install --upgrade coveralls
        coveralls --finish
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The COVERALLS_FLAG_NAME environment variable (or the flag_name parameter in the config file) is optional and can be used to better identify each job on coveralls.io. It does not need to be unique across the parallel jobs.