This repo will no longer be updated. The owner (dev-drprasad) is no longer interested, and I (thadguidry) as the only other maintainer, have noticed there is no longer a pressing need to maintain it. This is because there are already much more updated GitHub Actions that have the same features and more. I (thadguidry) have asked the owner (dev-drprasad) to archive this repo, but he has not responded to me for unknown reasons, so updating this README with a warning.

For new projects, we highly suggest you search for and use any of the other release delete actions available on the GitHub Actions Marketplace. For existing projects, we highly suggest you migrate to another GitHub Action to handle deleting releases in your workflows.

This action deletes older releases of given repo

Add following step to your workflow:

- uses: dev-drprasad/[email protected]
  with:
    repo: <owner>/<repoName> # defaults to current repo
    keep_latest: 3
    keep_min_download_counts: 1 # Optional parameters
    delete_expired_data: 10 # Optional parameters
    delete_tag_pattern: beta # defaults to ""
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Specifies number of latest releases (sorted by created_at) to keep. Pass 0 if you want to delete all releases

Specifies the number of downloads that versions must have at minimum, otherwise they will be removed ....

To delete data that exceeds the specified number of days, please enter the number of overdue days. For example, setting the value to 10 will delete release data created more than 10 days ago. Note that this parameter is based on keep latest.

Specifies whether to delete tags associated to older releases or not. Older tags without any associated releases will not be deleted

Delete only prereleases

Repo name in the format of <owner>/<repoName>. Defaults to the repo that executing this action

Specifies a release tag (not title) Regex string pattern to match. If not specified, then every release will be targeted. If specified, then every release containing the pattern will be targeted. Examples, beta, ^v2\..*-beta$, v3\.0.*

Github rest api url, the default is "api.github.com". If you are an enterprise user, you can replace it with "{your-github-enterprise-url}/api/v3". Please refer to: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/rest

flowchart TD 
01[github rest api url]
02[Get github all releases]
03[Filter pre-release data]
04[Filter delete_tag_pattern]
05[Sort data by date]
06[Filter keep latest]
07[Filter keep keepMinDownloadCount]
08[Filter deleteExpiredData]
09[Delete old release and tag]

    01 --> 02
    02 -.-> 03
    02 -.-> 04
    03 --> 05
    04 --> 05
    05 --> 06
    06 -.-> 07
    06 -.-> 08
    07 --> 09
    08 --> 09