remove_gh_artifacts.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Change the date under CUTOFF_DATE to change how far back you want to delete
# Install the GitHub CLI tool by following the instructions in the official documentation: https://cli.github.com/manual/installation
# Make sure you auth first to github with 'gh auth login'

REPO_OWNER="OWNER"
REPO_NAME="REPO_NAME"
CUTOFF_DATE=$(date --date='30 days ago' +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
PAGE=1

while true; do
  # Retrieve a page of artifacts
  ART_EXIST=$(gh api repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts?per_page=100\&page=$PAGE | jq -r '.artifacts[]')
  ARTIFACTS=$(gh api repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts?per_page=100\&page=$PAGE | jq -r '.artifacts[] | select(.created_at < "'"$CUTOFF_DATE"'") | .id')
  echo $PAGE
  # If there are no more artifacts, exit the loop
  if [[ -z "$ART_EXIST" ]]; then
    break
  fi

  # Loop through the artifacts on this page and delete the old ones
  for ARTIFACT_ID in $ARTIFACTS; do
    ARTIFACT_NAME=$(gh api repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts/$ARTIFACT_ID | jq -r '.name')
    echo "Deleting artifact $ARTIFACT_NAME (ID: $ARTIFACT_ID)..."
    gh api repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts/$ARTIFACT_ID -X DELETE
  done

  # Increment the page counter
  PAGE=$((PAGE+1))
done

Thanks for this.

This has worked beautifully! Thanks a lot 🙌

On macOS I had to adjust the date slightly

CUTOFF_DATE=$(date -u -v-30d +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

Thanks

get_date() {
    CUTOFF_DATE=$(date --date='30 days ago' +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2>/dev/null)
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        CUTOFF_DATE=$(date -v-30d +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2>/dev/null)
    fi
    echo $CUTOFF_DATE
}

CUTOFF_DATE=$(get_date)

handling the date on mac

Works great!

Powershell version. I couldn't get cutoff date to work so it will delete all artifacts one by one

$REPO_OWNER = "OWNER"
$REPO_NAME = "REPO_NAME"
$CUTOFF_DATE = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30).ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ")
$PAGE = 1

while ($true) {
    # Retrieve a page of artifacts
    $ART_EXIST = gh api "repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts?per_page=100&page=$PAGE" | ConvertFrom-Json
    $ARTIFACTS = $ART_EXIST.artifacts
    #Write-Output $ART_EXIST.artifacts
    Write-Output $PAGE
    #Write-Output $ARTIFACTS

    # If there are no more artifacts, exit the loop
    if ($ART_EXIST.total_count -eq 0) {
        break
    }

    # Loop through the artifacts on this page and delete the old ones
    foreach ($ARTIFACT in $ARTIFACTS) {
        $ARTIFACT_NAME = $ARTIFACT.name
        $ARTIFACT_ID = $ARTIFACT.id
        Write-Output "Deleting artifact $ARTIFACT_NAME (ID: $ARTIFACT_ID)..."
        gh api "repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/actions/artifacts/$ARTIFACT_ID" -X Delete
    }

    # Increment the page counter
    $PAGE++
}

@illusion0001 Thanks for this!

Thanks for sharing this! You might want to add --silent at the end of the delete call so that the script doesn't get interrupted by the response body.