A bash script to delete all workflow runs for GitHub Actions workflows with the status "disabled_manually".

delete_disabled_workflow_runs.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Script to delete all workflow runs for workflows with the status "disabled_manually"
# This script uses the --jq option of GitHub CLI to filter JSON data directly,
# avoiding the need to pipe through the jq command.
# Modified from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67000032

# Define your organization and repository
org=<your org>
repo=<your repo>

# Get workflow IDs with status "disabled_manually"
workflow_ids=($(gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/workflows --paginate --jq '.workflows[] | select(.["state"] | contains("disabled_manually")) | .id'))

# Loop through each workflow ID and delete its runs
for workflow_id in "${workflow_ids[@]}"
do
  echo "Listing runs for the workflow ID $workflow_id"
  run_ids=( $(gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/workflows/$workflow_id/runs --paginate --jq '.workflow_runs[].id') )
  for run_id in "${run_ids[@]}"
  do
    echo "Deleting Run ID $run_id"
    gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/runs/$run_id -X DELETE >/dev/null
  done
done