I have a list of inactive users in Confluence. Is there any API to delete it ?

[Barkha Singh]

I have a list of inactive users in Confluence. Is there any API to delete it ?
I tried below api 

curl -u {username}:{password} -X POST https://{confluence_url}/rest/api/user?username={inactive_username}&method=DELETE

curl -u {username}:{password} -X DELETE https://{confluence_url}/rest/api/user?username={inactive_username}

[Faisal · Accepted solution]

Hi Barkha,

Can you please tell what user Directory are you using currently for your Confluence application is it Confluence Internal directory  or Jira Directory integrated with Confluence or Any AD .

Because you can't delete users present in the last two as you are not owner for the user ID and if it is the first one then we can look what is the issue with the curl command 

Please check and confirm

[Barkha Singh]

I am using https://confluence-dev.cox.com url . And i am getting 405 error.  "Method Not Allowed"

[Faisal]

Can you please tell what user Directory are you using currently for your Confluence application is it Confluence Internal directory  or Jira Directory integrated with Confluence or Any AD .

[Barkha Singh]

Confluence Internal Directory

[Faisal]

Currently delete API is not available as per the Link for Confluence server . Can you please specify what is your source of origin for the mentioned API ?

[Barkha Singh]

Is there any other way to delete inactive users?

[Faisal]

Currently you can use add-on for completing the task . One of the Add-on which i can recommended is Script Runner for Confluence .

Which has script to complete the action . You can use trial version to complete your action .

You can Find many more add-on if you search . Let me check and recommend you a few .

Regards

[Pradeep Varma]

Can you share me a script to get inactive users in Confluence for datacenter