Command to remove GitHub Draft release

Question

I'm trying to delete a Release in GitHub, so I'm doing

git tag -d {release-tag-name}
git push origin :{release-tag-name}

This removes the tag (local and remote) but it leaves a Draft release in GitHub that I also want to delete.

I can delete it by login into GitHub and clicking the delete button but I want to avoid doing this through the website.

Is there a command to achieve this? I've found some other similar postings about removing tags but they all end up going to GitHub to delete the Draft.

Edit

In this question's accepted answer Step 2 and 5 are related to my question. Step 2 says This will turn your "Release" on GitHub into a Draft that you can later delete. while step 5 instructs to delete the Draft in GitHub's site, not trough a command.

Answer 1

Releases are not something git CLI can help you with.

Releases are GitHub specific thing.

You can use GitHub API to create/update/delete releases.

DELETE /repos/:owner/:repo/releases/:id

If you want to automate interaction with GitHub API you can do the following:

1. Get an API token with proper permissions.
2. Store it somewhere, let's say environment variables.
3. Write a few scripts.

For example in this case you can have one script to delete local tag, call API to get tag id by name, delete remote tag and delete a release.