Action responsible for deleting old artifacts by setting expire duration.

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

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.

Regular expression to find files by name.

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

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

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

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

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

jobs:
  delete-artifacts:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: viverov/purge-artifacts-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          pattern: 'filename-.+$'

There are few improvements to be made, namely

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