List of All Portal Users

[JosephRoberts2]

I need to delete all the Users from a particular Group on my Portal.  I initially attempted a group first approach but realized that there wasn't an efficient way to access the users via the group.  Therefore, I took a user approach. 

The logic for identifying the users group and deleting the users is working however, I have yet to find a way to iterate through all of the portal users.  The search either times out or returns the errors below.

I know it has something to do with the query but I have yet to find adequate search query documentation for the Python API.

Search—ArcGIS REST API: Users, groups, and content | ArcGIS for Developers 

Search reference—ArcGIS REST API: Users, groups, and content | ArcGIS for Developers 

Can someone please point me in the direction of the correct user search syntax or assist with troubleshooting this issue?

Thanks. 

[BenTurrell · Accepted solution]

Hey Joseph Roberts‌,

Have you seen this document: Accessing and managing groups | ArcGIS for Developers 

It has a get_members function that will give you a list of users. From there you can delete the users.

Thanks,

Ben

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[WilliamCraft]

Here is some code to iterate through users within Portal:

source = GIS("https://servername.domain.com/portal", "username", "password", verify_cert=False)
source_users = source.users.search('!esri_ & !portaladmin')
for user in source_users:
       print(user.username)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[LaurensGIS]

This solution only gets you the first 100 users. I used advanced_search to get more users, but I believe there is still a maximum. If you reach the maximum you have to use paging. 

But how did you figure out what the right search query was? 

source = GIS("https://servername.domain.com/portal", "username", "password", verify_cert=False)
source_users = source.users.advanced_search(query='!esri_ & !portaladmin', max_users = -1)
for user in source_users.get('results'):
    print(user.username)

This is my solution with paging. It works, but I'm not an Python expert, so I'm not sure this is the best method. It searches for 100 users at a time. When there are less than 100 users in the result, it means it has reached the last page. 

source = GIS("https://servername.domain.com/portal", "username", "password", verify_cert=False)
start = 0
lenght_searchresult = 100
while lenght_searchresult == 100:
    source_users = source.users.advanced_search(query='!esri_ & !portaladmin', start = start, max_users = 100)
    list_users = source_users.get('results')
    lenght_searchresult = len(list_users)
    start = start + 100
    for user in list_users:
        print(user.username)