Export cleanup

• Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Scheduled cleanup (recommended)
  • Manual cleanup
  • Programmatic cleanup
• Scheduling
• How it works
• Testing
• Changelog
• Sponsoring
• License

Automatically remove old Filament export files from disk and optionally delete their exports table rows.

Filament table exports store files on disk and keep metadata in the database. Over time these accumulate. This package finds completed exports older than a configurable retention period, deletes their file directories, and optionally removes the database records.

#Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12 or 13
• Filament Actions (exports) v4 or v5

#Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require pachristos/filament-export-cleanup

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="filament-export-cleanup-config"

Or use the install command, which publishes the config for you:

php artisan filament-export-cleanup:install

The package auto-registers its service provider. No further setup is required beyond configuration.

#Configuration

Configuration lives in config/filament-export-cleanup.php. All options can be overridden with environment variables.

Set file_disk to the same disk your Filament exports use (local or public). S3 and other remote disks are not supported yet.

#Usage

#Scheduled cleanup (recommended)

When schedule.enabled is true, the package registers cleanup:filament-export on Laravel's scheduler. Ensure your server runs the scheduler (for example via cron):

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

The default schedule runs on weekdays at 02:00.

#Manual cleanup

Run the Artisan command at any time:

php artisan cleanup:filament-export

The command reports how many export file directories were removed, or that nothing needed deletion.

#Programmatic cleanup

Resolve the service from the container:

use Pachristos\FilamentExportCleanup\FilamentExportCleanup;

$deletedIds = app(FilamentExportCleanup::class)->run();

Or use the facade:

use FilamentExportCleanup;

$deletedIds = FilamentExportCleanup::run();

run() returns an array of deleted export IDs. When enabled is false, it returns an empty array without doing any work.

#Scheduling

The schedule.frequency config controls when the cleanup command is registered on Laravel's scheduler. You can configure it with any of Laravel's schedule frequency options by passing a Closure that receives the scheduled Event and chains any combination of frequency methods (dailyAt(), hourly(), weekdays(), cron(), timezone constraints, etc.). A raw cron expression string is also accepted.

The default runs the cleanup on weekdays at 02:00:

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Event;

'schedule' => [
    'enabled' => env('FILAMENT_EXPORT_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE_ENABLED', true),
    'frequency' => fn (Event $event) => $event
        ->weekdays()
        ->dailyAt('02:00'),
],

Use any frequency method (or combination) Laravel supports. A few examples:

'frequency' => fn (Event $event) => $event->hourly(),

'frequency' => fn (Event $event) => $event
    ->twiceDaily(1, 13)
    ->timezone('Europe/Athens'),

'frequency' => fn (Event $event) => $event
    ->weeklyOn(0, '03:00'),

Or supply a raw cron expression directly:

'frequency' => '0 3 * * 0',

Disable automatic scheduling and run cleanup only manually or from your own scheduler:

FILAMENT_EXPORT_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE_ENABLED=false

See the Laravel schedule frequency options documentation for the full list of available methods.

#How it works

1. Query the Filament exports table for records where completed_at is older than retention_hours and file_disk matches your configured disk.
2. Delete each export's file directory from disk via Filament's Export model.
3. If delete_database_records is true, delete the matching rows from the exports table.

Exports still within the retention window are left untouched.

#Testing

composer test

#Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

#Sponsoring

Development of this package is supported by Christos Papoulas.

#License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.