topic Re: Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API in ArcGIS Online Questions

Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API

RachelBu — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:38:38 GMT

I'm trying to batch delete contents in ArcGIS Online. For example, when users export a feature service to File Geodatabase, there will be a geodatabase object in ArcGIS online before downloading to local folders. I wonder if I can write a script to delete all the file geodatabase objects. I know how to delete a single item using the API like item.delete(). But I don't know how to delete items in a bulk.

I appreciate your help!

Re: Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API

jcarlson — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 03:17:27 GMT

There is a function delete_items() that is part of the ContentManager class. Use it like this:

gis = arcgis.GIS('url', 'user', 'pw') fgdb_list = gis.content.search('', item_type='File Geodatabase', max_items=-1) gis.content.delete_items(fgdb_list)

Re: Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API

RachelBu — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 23:24:08 GMT

If I want to delete item created by me only. How do I set the owner parameter in the script? The search function doesn't seem to have a parameter like item owner.

Re: Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API

jcarlson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 01:40:56 GMT

It's actually part of the query string, details of which you can find here.

fgdb_list = gis.content.search(query="owner:my-username", item_type='File Geodatabase', max_items=-1)

Re: Batch delete items using ArcGIS Python API

RachelBu — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:04:06 GMT

Thank you so much, Josh!