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How to bulk delete Confluence page history

Jason Spotswood

I am looking for a way to easily bulk delete Confluence page history. We have automation in place which allows data on a wiki page to be autogenerated. Whenever when the data is updated many times, this can create a large amount of unwanted history. We would like to be able to delete the page history using automation from time to time.

I see that there is a copy space plugin (https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace) which provides this type of support, however I do not want to have to copy a space to delete the history in it. More over some of the history within the space I would want to keep.

I note that the REST API, has the ability to query the history information for a page, i.e. /rest/api/content/{id}/history. Could that be used to delete the history for a page? I would not appear as such since only GET is supported.

Accepted answers

Jason Spotswood

After using the Confluence Command Line Interface, we found that the following allowed us to remove page revisions:

./confluence.sh --user ${USER} --password ${PASSWORD} --action removePageVersions --space "${SPACE}" --title "${LINE}" --limit "${LIMIT}"

we also followed up with the following to clean up the space:

./confluence.sh --user ${USER} --password ${PASSWORD} --action removeTrash --space "${SPACE}"

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Joachim Ooi

Which Confluence version are you running on? Go for Conf 5.0 if you haven't yet.

There is a feature on deleting a version of a page. All thanks to this - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-996.

Jason Spotswood

We use Confluence 5.5. Yes I am aware that there is a feature to manually delete history one at a time. However, when a page has 59 history instances and there are many pages with the same amount of history, performing this activity manually is extremely time consuming and quite boring. Surely it can be automated in some way. I am aware that there is a feature request to be able to manage history (CONF-27701), however it is still open and has not been started. Are there any other options?

Davin Studer

Check out the Confluence Command Line Interface. It has options for removing page versions.

Jason Spotswood

After using the Confluence Command Line Interface, we found that the following allowed us to remove page revisions:

./confluence.sh --user ${USER} --password ${PASSWORD} --action removePageVersions --space "${SPACE}" --title "${LINE}" --limit "${LIMIT}"

we also followed up with the following to clean up the space:

./confluence.sh --user ${USER} --password ${PASSWORD} --action removeTrash --space "${SPACE}"

DebbieR

HI Davin or anyone,

I'm a beginner, can you please direct me to info to learn more ab out a CLI and how it works? Is there any training you'd recommend? Thank you,

DebbieR

Example, how specifically would I get removePageVersions to work in Confluence using CLI If I installed it?

I am constantly deleting previous versions of a page one at a time which is most annoying!

Thanks

Stephen Kairys_keaglp

Yes, bulk delete - w/o resorting to command line would be great. I'm painfully deleting 100+ versions now. sad Happy holidays! smile

Kalas Richard

You can use this plug in to remove page versions easily :

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.elitesoftsp.confluence.page.utility.plugins/server/pricing

Di Chen

How about confluence cloud?

Robert Klahn

Yes, how about Confluence Cloud?

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