Delete Posts Trough CLI

Developer help
1

Dears,

There’s a way to delete all posts using ghost-cli or API?

If not exist something like it, Can I delete all items of a specific table to delete all posts?

BR,

2

Are you trying to delete all posts or all content? If you’re trying to delete all your content, there’s an option to do that via the labs (/ghost/#/settings/labs).

If you’re looking to delete just posts, it might be easier to do that via the API.

// This code has not been tested. Use at your own risk!
const api = new GhostAdminAPI({
  url: 'http://localhost:2368',
  key: 'YOUR_ADMIN_API_KEY',
  version: "v3"
});

const {posts} = await api.posts.browse({limit: 'all'});

for (const post of posts) {
  console.log('Deleting %s - %s', post.id, post.title);
  await api.posts.delete({id: post.id})
}
3

Thanks for your reply, @vikaspotluri123!

I’m trying to delete all posts. I’m gonna test it!

I did create an entire IaC(Terraform + AWS) to provide and configure Ghost. I will create a serverless function to delete all posts for admin users. To do it, I will use lambda.

aws lambda invoke --function-name DeleteAllPosts --payload '{“admin_api_key”:“YOUR_ADMIN_API_KEY”} output.txt

4

Tried the below to delete all post and it is saying no method of api.post.delete?

const GhostContentAPI = require('@tryghost/content-api');
const api = new GhostContentAPI({
  url: 'https://demo.ghost.io',
  key: '22444f78447824223cefc48062',
  version: "v5.0"
});

// fetch 5 posts, including related tags and authors
api.posts
    .browse({limit: 5})
    .then((posts) => {
        posts.forEach((post) => {
            console.log(post.id);
            api.posts.delete({id: post.id})
        });
    })
    .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
    });
5

The Content API won’t let you delete posts, because it’s a read-only API. If you’re trying to mutate data, you need to use the Admin API with an Admin API Key