README.md

Delete artifacts action

Action responsible for deleting old artifacts by setting expire duration.

Hopefuly this is just temporary solution till github implements this functionality natively.

Inputs

expire-in

Required for how long the artifacts should be kept. Most of the human readable formats are supported 10 minutes, 1hr 20mins, 1week. Take a look at parse-duration for more information.

Outputs

deleted-artifacts

Serialized list of deleted artifacts. Empty [] when nothing is deleted

Usage

Run this action as cron. This won't delete artifacts of running workflows because they are persisted after workflow completion.

name: 'Delete old artifacts'
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *' # every hour

jobs:
  delete-artifacts:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: kolpav/purge-artifacts-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          expire-in: 7days # Setting this to 0 will delete all artifacts

Contributing

There are few improvements to be made, namely

• More delete strategies (name, size, number of occurences, regex match on name etc..)
• Better test coverage