How to delete spaces in bulk using Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)

This article presents step by step instructions on how to delete spaces in bulk using the Confluence CLI app.

Instructions

Use the removeSpace action to delete spaces from Confluence in bulk.

1. Create a CSV file with the space keys that need to be removed. Run the following command using the getSpaceList action. 
   
   

   --action getSpaceList --file "spacelist.csv"

2. Run the following CLI action along with the runFromCsv action to delete spaces. Ensure that the spacelist.csv file has only space keys with the column name 'space'.
   
   

   --action runFromCsv --file "spacelist.csv" --common "--action removeSpace" --continue

   
   Sample CSV file:
   
   
   The parameters used in the above actions are:

   • --space value refers to the space key.

   • --remove value refers to comma-separated list of space permissions.
   • --Common parameter string added to all run actions.
   • --continue value processing even after errors are encountered for run actions. Also used for some action to ignore certain errors like not found errors on remove actions.
   • --file value refers to path to file based content.