GitHub Action: Delete older releases

This action deletes older releases of given repo

Add following step to your workflow:

- uses: dev-drprasad/delete-older-releases@v0.3.3
  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 }}

Available Options

`keep_latest`

required
true

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

`keep_min_download_counts`

required	default
false	0

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

`delete_expired_data`

required	default
false	0

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.

`delete_tags`

required	default
false	false

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

`delete_prerelease_only`

required	default
false	false

Delete only prereleases

`repo`

required	default
false	repo executing action

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

`delete_tag_pattern`

required	default
false	empty string

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`

required	default
false	api.github.com

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

Flow Chart (mermaid format)

flowchart TD 
01[github rest api url]
02[Get github all releases]
03[Filter pre-release data]
04[Filter delete_tag_pattern]
05[Filter assets length > 0]
06[Sort data by date]
07[Filter keep latest]
08[Filter keep keepMinDownloadCount]
09[Filter deleteExpiredData]
10[Delete old release and tag]

    01 --> 02
    02 -.-> 03
    02 -.-> 04
    03 --> 05
    04 --> 05
    05 --> 06
    06 --> 07
    07 -.-> 08
    07 -.-> 09
    09 --> 10
    08 --> 10

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