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API call to delete files?

  • May 22, 2025
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Hello - I'm trying to remove multiple files from multiple users within Box. Manually this will take a very long time and I thought Box CLI may work. 

 

Have any of you done this before and can either guide me or supply me with a script that I edit for my specific request? 

 

Any assistance would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks!

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    C
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    Hello , 

     

    Great question! The CLI would definitely be a great tool to use here. 

     

    Here's the command you would run: 

     

    box files:delete FILEIDHERE

     

    This does support using a bulk CSV and if you wanted to do that you'd create a .csv file with one column named ID. This would contain each file ID you wanted to delete. The command to run that would become: 

     

    box files:delete --bulk-file-path=BULKFILEPATHHERE

     

    Best, 

    C
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    You rock. Thank you for the quick reply. I'll look into and respond with my results. 

     

    C
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    Is there a way to introduce a wildcard? Deleting by file ID will work however we have several users that can changed the name and I believe that changes the file ID. 

     

    Would a script be a better choice for this rather than CLI?

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