GitHub actions: Delete All Workflow Runs

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Using following command to delete all workflow runs on GitHub actions of a specific branch:

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user=GH_USERNAME repo=REPO_NAME; gh api repos/$user/$repo/actions/runs \--paginate -q '.workflow_runs[] | select(.head_branch == "master") | "\(.id)"' | \xargs -n1 -I % gh api repos/$user/$repo/actions/runs/% -X DELETE

Replace GH_USERNAME and REPO_NAME with your parameters.

You need to install GitHub CLI tool gh first.