Quickly delete all packages from GitHub registry using a blob
Script to remove GitHub registry images Hey, though I quickly just share a script to get rid of packages you don’t want anymore from your GitHub registry. #!/bin/bash set -e # Variables OWNER=$1 # Replace with your GitHub username or organization name PACKAGE_GLOB=$2 # Glob pattern for package names passed as an argument (e.g., "package*" to match all) # makes sure that important packages are not removed by accident contains() { found=1 array=(place-very-important-packages-here-to-make-sure-they-are-not-deleted) for v in "${array[@]}" do if [[ "$1" == "$v" ]]; then echo "$v found not deleting" found=0 break fi done } # Function to delete a package version delete_package_version() { contains "$1" # echo "found: $found" if [[ $found -eq 1 ]]; then name=${1//\//%2F} echo "deleting package with name: $name" gh api -X DELETE "/user/packages/container/$name" --silent fi } # Fetch the list of all available packages for the user/organization echo "Fetching packages matching the glob pattern '$PACKAGE_GLOB'..." # Fetch all package names and filter with globbing # Change `/users/` to `organization` if you are looking at organization packages. ALL_PACKAGES=$(gh api "/users/$OWNER/packages?package_type=container" --jq '.[].name' --paginate) MATCHED_PACKAGES=$(echo "$ALL_PACKAGES" | grep "$PACKAGE_GLOB") if [[ -z "$MATCHED_PACKAGES" ]]; then echo "No packages found matching the pattern '$PACKAGE_GLOB'." exit 1 fi # echo "Deleting the following packages: ${MATCHED_PACKAGES}" # Loop through matched packages and delete them SAVEIFS=$IFS # Save current IFS (Internal Field Separator) IFS=$'\n' # Change IFS to newline char packages=($MATCHED_PACKAGES) # split the `names` string into an array by the same name IFS=$SAVEIFS # Restore original IFS for (( i=0; i<${#packages[@]}; i++ )) do delete_package_version "${packages[$i]}" done echo "All matching packages deleted!" That is all. ...