How would I accomplish this? Can’t seem to really figure out what to do… I’ve looked at: [image] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at docs.discourse.org. You can also use the discourse_api Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select … https://www.postman.com/api-evangelist/workspace/discourse/documentation/35240-c739e2a5-3ddf-4ffc-90e9-7dd579e8a55d?entity=request-35240-b041dc53-b653-4c46-b067-aee2b0a5cb46 but I don’t understand. The main thing I also don’t get is how to have each random ID gotten and then sent to be deleted since each ID is different…

Lola, how does one delete all Discourse posts by a user using the API?

Btw I don’t believe there is a way to bulk delete via the API. I think you need to write a script to cycle through each post to delete. Depending on how many posts, rate limits could be an issue. Lola, how do I write a script to bulk delete Discourse posts? BTW, Why are you using API to do this? I think it can also be done as a rake task from command line.

Thank you, will try this out sometime today! So, can that rake stuff be done as a normal user? I would like this all to be done as a normal user who isn’t staff. [image] Lilly: I think you need to write a script This. When I ran the python script below: import requests # Configuration discourse_base_url = 'https://forums.mysite.me/' api_key = 'eb4065d1dergrgh45h45h54h45reg4g70cbeb274bf7f87' api_username = 'username' target_username = 'targetusername' # Headers for API requests headers = { 'eb4065d1dergrgh45h45h54h45reg4g70cbeb274bf7f87': api_key, 'B': api_username } def get_user_posts(username): """Fetch posts by a specific user.""" posts = [] url = f'{discourse_base_url}/posts.json?username={username}' response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: posts_data = response.json() posts = posts_data.get('latest_posts', []) return posts def delete_post(post_id): """Delete a specific post.""" url = f'{discourse_base_url}/posts/{post_id}.json' response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers) return response.status_code == 200 def main(): # Fetch user posts posts = get_user_posts(target_username) # Delete each post for post in posts: post_id = post.get('id') if delete_post(post_id): print(f'Successfully deleted post {post_id}') else: print(f'Failed to delete post {post_id}') if __name__ == '__main__': main() On my terminal/console, I get: Failed to delete post 73 Failed to delete post 71 Failed to delete post 69 Failed to delete post 60 Failed to delete post 47 I tried 2 API keys I made. One with only me who can use it and one will all users. Both times, used the Global option. Same result.

[bbbb] I’m sorry, but this made me audibly laugh. I needed that today this morning, haha.

[image] 45thj5ej: I would like this all to be done as a normal user who isn’t staff. That’s not going to work. Even for API requests. After a certain point users can’t delete their own posts. Usually the best option is to anonymize all posts by a user if they no longer want to be apart of the forum. This will simply change their username to something random so that their posts are no longer associated with them.

@Lilly Saw the reply ya deleted. So, what about making it work for myself or another Admin user? Not sure if ya saw, but I edited my above post to include the result I’m getting when using that script. I guess same can be asked to you too, @blake, haha. [image] Blake Erickson: is to anonymize all posts by a user if they no longer want to be apart of the forum This is just for testing atm.

I deleted because Blake answered already.

[image] 45thj5ej: but I edited my above post to include the result I’m getting when using that script. You can try this curl request for your post id curl -i -sS -X DELETE "http://localhost:4200/posts/ .json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Api-Key: key" \ -H "Api-Username: username" To see if it returns a different error but likely it will just say “An Error Occurred” :frowning: [CleanShot 2024-04-04 at 09.10.46@2x] Looks like there are some site settings around users deleting posts that you can tweak. Also looks like there might be a “Delete all posts” button somewhere.

Trying the curl command above: curl -X GET "https://forums.mysite.me/posts.json?username=targetusername" \ -H "Api-Key: eb4065d56u7u6u65u54y54uy566575w4yer343434ac8a770cbeb274bf7f87" \ -H "Api-Username: AdminUsername" So, it ran and fetched me the posts…but then I got this: C:\Users\User>-H "Api-Key: eb4065d56u7u6u65u54y54uy566575w4yer343434ac8a770cbeb274bf7f87" '-H' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Users\User>-H "Api-Username: AdminUsername" '-H' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Is this normal or why is that happening?

The curl command you entered is not the same as the one from above. Looks like you are using the Windows cmd terminal, maybe it doesn’t like the \ separating lines. You can just remove them so it is all on one line.

Delete all posts by a user on entire site with API?

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blake (Blake Erickson) April 4, 2024, 3:29pm 17

Looks like there is an endpoint to batch delete all posts for a user.

It’s triggered by this button on the users page from the admin dashboard

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