Status and support

• ✔ stable
• ✔ supported
• ✖ no ongoing development

GitHub Action Artifacts are removed after 90 days. This cannot be configured either globally or per project. There's also a limit on free artifact space after which it becomes a payed resource. There's no configurable storage limit per project either, so some projects might use up all quota and not leave room for others.

We created this Action to solve these problems. It

• removes artifacts that are older than the specified age
• has the option to keep release (tagged) artifacts
• respects GitHub's rate limit

Add the following workflow to your repository and configure options.

.github/workflows/remove-old-artifacts.yml

name: Remove old artifacts

on:
  schedule:
    # Every day at 1am
    - cron: '0 1 * * *'

jobs:
  remove-old-artifacts:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10

    steps:
    - name: Remove old artifacts
      uses: c-hive/gha-remove-artifacts@v1
      with:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        age: '1 month'
        skip-tags: true

This project follows C-Hive guides for code style, way of working and other development concerns.

The project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.