Immich bulk delete by multiple ids

immich_bulk_delete_assets.py

import requests
from datetime import datetime

# === CONFIG ===
IMMICH_URL = "http://localhost:2283/api"
API_KEY = os.environ.get("IMMICH_API_KEY")
DATE_AFTER = "2025-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"
DATE_BEFORE = "2025-08-29T00:00:00.000Z"

HEADERS = {
    "x-api-key": API_KEY,
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}

# First two lines are from postgres output, useless.
# Also the lines have single space as prefix, need to eliminate that too.
to_delete = [x.strip() for x in open('asset_ids_to_be_deleted.txt', 'r').read().splitlines()[2:]]
print('to_delete', to_delete[:10])

print(f"Found {len(to_delete)} assets to delete.")

if not to_delete:
    exit("Nothing to delete. Check your date range.")

# === STEP 3: Delete in batches (API limit: 100 per call) ===
# I can only make 1 work, any larger number was not deleting fully.
#BATCH_SIZE = 100
BATCH_SIZE = 1

for i in range(0, len(to_delete), BATCH_SIZE):
    batch = to_delete[i:i+BATCH_SIZE]
    print(f"Deleting batch {i//BATCH_SIZE+1} ({len(batch)} items)...")
    # print('batch', batch)
    del_resp = requests.delete(
        f"{IMMICH_URL}/assets",
        headers=HEADERS,
        json={"ids": batch, "force": True}
    )
    print('del_resp', del_resp)
    if del_resp.status_code == 200:
        print("Batch deleted successfully.")
    else:
        print("Error:", del_resp.status_code, del_resp.text)

print("✅ Deletion complete!")