No longer maintained

This project was created as temporary solution to problem I saw a lot of people to have but it seems people at github have no intention of fixing and neither do I. I recommend looking at other projects or you could use this as starting point for your own action.

You could also +1 this issue

or take a look at this comment from the same issue https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/issues/290#issuecomment-1374207010

Delete artifacts action

Action responsible for deleting old artifacts by setting expire duration.

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

Inputs

expire-in

Required 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.

Outputs

deleted-artifacts

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

Usage

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

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

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

Optional arguments

onlyPrefix

Only purge artifacts that start with tmp_ as a prefix.

with:
  onlyPrefix: tmp_  

exceptPrefix

Exclude any artifacts that start with prod_ as a prefix

with:
  exceptPrefix: prod_

Note

If you reach size limit, you can temporarily change to on: push and run it immediately. Even if the action succeeded, it will take a few more minutes for the artifacts to actually disappear.

Contributing

I would take a look at other maintained projects and contribute to them.