Smart/Quick way to delete "one shot" all dataset of an organization?

Question

Is there a smart/quick way to permanently delete (“purge”) "one shot" all dataset belonging to an organization, either via GUI or via sysadmin command?

I've an organization with 100k datasets ...

Answer 1

In the web interface you can 'delete' an organization's datasets in large batches and then 'empty the trash' to purge them. However with so many datasets this approach may suffer from request timeouts - let us know how you get on.

As an admin for the organization:

• on the organization's page click "Manage" button
• click "Datasets" tab
• in the header row of the table tick the checkbox to select all the datasets on the page (the code suggests the paging allows you to do 500 at a time, but I've not checked for real)
• click "Delete"

Then as a sysadmin:

• In the top bar click "Sysadmin settings" (hammer icon)
• click "trash" tab
• click "Purge"

Alternatively you could write a script to call CKAN APIs:

• package_search for fq=organization:<name> (rather than using organization_show, which is limited to 1000 datasets)
• dataset_purge for each dataset