Clear all Varnish cache from python

Question

I have a python backend, working as api with Varnish 3.0.7 in front. Every now and then I want to be able to clear varnish cache from my python app - e.i. after some documents have been updated.

I've been trying purge from this tutorial https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/purging.html but it only purge one object.

I know I can restart varnish but is there any way of deleting all cached objects?

Answer 1

You can do you it from varnishadmin (varnishadm "ban req.url ~ /"), I'm not sure if there's programmatic way to your requirement.

Update: You might take a look on that project https://github.com/justquick/python-varnish (didn't try it myself).