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Hey all - what’s the quickest way to batch delete all documents of a certain type? It looks like the `sanity` cli tool allows deletion of documents by ID but no ability to...

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Last updated: Jan 29, 2021
Hey all - what’s the quickest way to batch delete all documents of a certain type? It looks like the
sanity
cli tool allows deletion of documents by ID but no ability to delete by query?
Jan 29, 2021, 1:04 AM
I think you can (but don't use the CLI myself). See "Deleting multiple documents by query" here: https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-mutations
Jan 29, 2021, 2:21 AM
Hey
user A
thanks! I actually managed to just do a
sanity documents query
call to grab all of the relevant document IDs, pulled them into a text doc to massage the response down to space-separated IDs, then put them back into
sanity documents delete …
and it worked a charm 😄
Jan 29, 2021, 2:22 AM
Maybe not the proper programmatic way to do it, but good enough for what I need for now
Jan 29, 2021, 2:23 AM
Nice. Hey, if it worked, it was the right way. 🥳
Jan 29, 2021, 2:24 AM

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