Delete all attachments

[Mick Davidson]

Hello,

Is there a way of deleting ALL attachments from a page?

I'm running 5.4.1, server

[Giuliano C_]

In addition to the information above: The Bob Swift's CLI add-on can help to remove a selection of attachments: https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+remove+a+selection+of+attachments

[Rodrigo Rosa]

Hello Mick,

There is a feature request to add this functionality to Confluence here. I believe there are some workarounds in the comments there you could try.

[Stephen Deutsch]

Hi Mick,

If you load up the browser console (by pressing F12 or Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + i) and paste the following code in and press Enter, it will delete all attachments from the page you are currently viewing.

var deleteAttachments = function(attachments) {
    requestObject = [];
    requestObject.push(attachments[0].ownerId);
    requestObject.push(attachments[0].fileName);
    jQuery.ajax({
        contentType: 'application/json',
        type: 'POST',
        url: '/rpc/json-rpc/confluenceservice-v2/removeAttachment',
        data: JSON.stringify(requestObject),
        success: function( response ) {
            attachments.shift();
            if (attachments.length) {
                deleteAttachments(attachments);
            } else {
                console.log("Done!");
            }
        }
    });
}
var getAttachments = function(attachments, startIndex) {
    var attachments = attachments || [];
    var startIndex = startIndex || 0;
    jQuery.ajax({
        url: contextPath + "/rest/prototype/1/content/" + AJS.params.pageId + "/attachments.json?start-index=" + startIndex,
        success: function(response) {
            attachments.push.apply(attachments, response.attachment);
            if ( attachments.length < response.size ) {
                startIndex += 50;
                getAttachments(attachments, startIndex);
            } else {
                deleteAttachments(attachments);
            }
        }
    });
}
getAttachments();

This should work for most versions of Confluence, including 5.4.1.  It will probably even work for Confluence Cloud.

Note: This doesn't check if you have permission to delete the attachments or not.  If not, it won't work.

[Mick Davidson]

Stephen, great, thanks for this. I haven't tried it yet, but will get back to you as soon as I have done. Cheers.

[AndrewChuk]

For this script to work there is a need to fix escaping that was applied to '<' operator in the if statement

if ( attachments.length < response.size ) {
                startIndex += 50;
                getAttachments(attachments, startIndex);
            } else {
                deleteAttachments(attachments);
            }

Expected

if ( attachments.length < response.size ) {
startIndex += 50;
getAttachments(attachments, startIndex);
} else {
deleteAttachments(attachments);
} 

[Matt D]

Thanks @AndrewChuk & @Stephen Deutsch - with the above script this successfully deleted ~60 attachments on Confluence Server 6.13 - saved me having to remove them manually!

[Vadym Milichev]

var headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic <base64credential_Y2hldjoyOUtsdWJuaWthJg>',
'X-Atlassian-Token': 'nocheck'
};
var apiRoot = 'https://confluence.host.net/rest/api';

// page
var containerId = '171607042'

fetch(`${apiRoot}/content/${containerId}/child/attachment`, {headers})
.then(r => r.json())
.then(o => Promise.all(o.results.map(i=>fetch(i._links.self, {method: "DELETE", headers}))))
.then(r => console.log('r', r));