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How can I bulk delete all my account's resources?

Itay Taragano
Updated

Via API


You can use the Admin API to bulk delete all of your Cloudinary uploaded resources in batches of 1000 resources per call. 


For example in PHP, to delete all assets of resource type image (default) and type upload (default) you can do this:

$api->delete_all_resources();


You can delete only a certain type of resource, for example - Facebook fetched profile images:

$api->delete_all_resources(array("type" => "facebook"));

 

When there are still more resources to go through, the next_cursor value is returned as part of the response. You can then specify this value as the next_cursor parameter of the following call. This way you can go through the full lists of your resources.


For more information, see: http://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/205714121-How-do-I-browse-through-all-resources-in-my-account-using-the-API-

Note that the Admin API is rate limited.

 

Via UI

Bulk delete assets in the UI. In addition to bulk deletes via the API, you can execute bulk deletion jobs by going to your Account's Settings page and clicking the "Bulk delete" button from the Self-Service Operations section - 

 

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  • achal bi

    Hi,

    I am using rails app and i have executed the below command to delete all my images. 

    Cloudinary::Api.delete_all_resources

     

    Even after deleting all images from my console I can still access these images through the previous URL. Though i cant see my uploaded images in Media library I dont see any changes in my storage size. Please help me on this.

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  • Itay Taragano

    While the images were successfully deleted from your account, they're still cached in the CDN.

    For more information:

    http://support.cloudinary.com/entries/23310776-I-have-deleted-an-image-and-though-it-has-been-removed-from-the-media-library-it-is-still-available-

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  • pik look

    so how about videos ?

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  • Roee Ben Ari

    When deleting either videos or raw files, a resource_type should be set as well. For example (in Rails):

    Cloudinary::Api.delete_all_resources(:resource_type => :video)
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  • Max Hodges

    move the UPDATE right to the top of this article!

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  • Eric Sharp

    What does the "Prefix" search actually mean? Can I put a domain URL to remove all images from a particular domain?

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  • Aditi Madan

    By prefix search, we mean the first few characters of the public_id. Eg: your image is a sample, you can search by the prefix which can be "sam", "s", "samp" etc. 

    Is the domain URL the public_id of the image or is it the fetched resource? Can you share an example?

    Thanks,

    Aditi

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  • Upendra Singh

    @aditi Is the prefix applicatable only at sub account level or global level

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  • Marissa Masangcay

    Hi Upendra,

    The bulk delete in general only works for each sub-account and does not delete your assets on a global level so you'll have to run a separate bulk delete call for each of your sub-accounts.

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