Ideas for Arc XP

Bulk delete api option

Problem

We are dealing with storage overages for our articles and images and currently the only way to delete multiple articles and images is to loop over every item and unpublish and delete them individually.

It is a time consuming process and due to the rate limiting it will take us months or even longer to be able to delete the amount necessary items to get back under our storage limit.

Proposal

We propose that ARC creates a bulk delete option on their API that would allow us to delete large amounts of articles and/or images at once.

Nice-to-have

A first iteration could just be an endpoint, but it would also be nice to have these articles to delete pushed to a "trash" that we could access through a UI. We could remove certain items from the "trash" if necessary; otherwise the items will be deleted automatically over set period of time (weekly, monthly, etc).

  • Kevin Wall
  • May 6 2025
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    Mike Holland commented
    13 Jun 14:22

    Thanks Kevin, we're working on a feature to allow a number of bulk change scenarios (bulk delete content, bulk delete image, bulk change circulation, remove site, etc...)