Delete old GitHub Actions workflow runs

remove-old-gh-workflow.sh

#!/bin/bash
# This is a script to remove old GitHub Actions workflow runs for a given workflow path
# It is helpful for cleaning up old workflow runs after you renamed the workflow

org=<ORGANIZATION-NAME>
repo=<REPOSITORY-NAME>
workflow_path=".github/workflows/<OLD_WORKFLOW_NAME>"

# Get workflow IDs with path = $path_workflow
workflow_ids=($(gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/workflows --paginate | jq '.workflows[] | select(.path == '\"$workflow_path\"') | .id'))
echo "Found ${#workflow_ids[@]} workflows with path $workflow_path"

for workflow_id in "${workflow_ids[@]}"; do
	echo "Listing runs for the workflow ID $workflow_id"
	run_ids=($(gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/workflows/$workflow_id/runs --paginate --jq '.workflow_runs[].id'))
	for run_id in "${run_ids[@]}"; do
		echo "Deleting Run ID $run_id"
		gh api repos/$org/$repo/actions/runs/$run_id -X DELETE >/dev/null
	done
done