Prevent source fill for unapproved "(Automatic Copy)" strings

General Questions
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I’m using the Crowdin GitHub Action to create pull requests with new translations. This is the configuration I’m currently using for downloading translations:

                    download_translations: true
                    download_translations_args: >
                        --branch=master-test
                        --export-only-approved
                        --language=eu
                        --preserve-hierarchy
                        --verbose

According to the CLI documentation, when --export-only-approved is used without the --skip-untranslated-strings option, any unapproved strings are filled with the source language content.

However, I would like to ignore specific strings during export based on certain criteria. Specifically, I do not want strings that contain “(Automatic Copy)” and are not approved to be filled with the source language — I just want them to remain as they are.

Is there a way to achieve this?

I don’t want the following to happen:

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Hi @davi.santos!

You can use Target File Bundles and the Exclude by labels option. You can create a bundle and configure it to exclude strings with specific labels. Also, in the Crowdin GitHub Action, there’s an option for download_bundle which lets you pull translations specifically from that filtered bundle.

So the plan would be:

  1. Label the strings you want to ignore (e.g. label them auto-copy).

  2. Create a bundle in Crowdin with Exclude by labels = auto-copy.

  3. Change your GitHub Action to use download_bundle: <bundle_id> instead of the generic download_translations config, so it pulls only from that bundle.

Hope this helps!

3

Hi @Sofiia!

After changing download_translations to download_bundle, will I still be able to use the download command arguments?

4

Hi @davi.santos !
Once you switch from download_translations to download_bundle, the download_translations_args options will no longer apply. Bundles handle all filtering and configuration directly in Crowdin.

5

@Sofiia Got it. I’ll test it out and get back to you if I have any questions.

Thank you!