API call to delete files?

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avctor

• March 24, 2020 14:43

Hello - I'm trying to remove multiple files from multiple users within Box. Manually this will take a very long time and I thought Box CLI may work. 

 

Have any of you done this before and can either guide me or supply me with a script that I edit for my specific request? 

 

Any assistance would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks!

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  Kourtney

  • March 24, 2020 15:45

  Hello , 

   

  Great question! The CLI would definitely be a great tool to use here. 

   

  Here's the command you would run: 

   

  box files:delete FILEIDHERE
  

   

  This does support using a bulk CSV and if you wanted to do that you'd create a .csv file with one column named ID. This would contain each file ID you wanted to delete. The command to run that would become: 

   

  box files:delete --bulk-file-path=BULKFILEPATHHERE

   

  Best, 

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  avctor

  • March 24, 2020 21:08

  You rock. Thank you for the quick reply. I'll look into and respond with my results. 

   

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  avctor

  • March 25, 2020 08:49

  Is there a way to introduce a wildcard? Deleting by file ID will work however we have several users that can changed the name and I believe that changes the file ID. 

   

  Would a script be a better choice for this rather than CLI?

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