Remove all files from s3 bucket using nodejs knox?

Question

I am using knox npm module to upload files to a bucket on S3. It works great. What I am not sure how to do is how to remove all the files from a bucket in one call instead of deleting one file at the time?

any idea would help...

Answer 1

This has not been possible in the past, however, Amazon has finally introduced Amazon S3 - Multi-Object Delete in December 2011:

Amazon S3's new Multi-Object Delete gives you the ability to delete up to 1000 objects from an S3 bucket with a single request.

Obviously client libraries like knox must add dedicated support for this API now in turn, and a respective issue does indeed exist already in knox' issue tracker (still pending as of today), see Multi-Object Delete.

Accordingly you should monitor this issue and/or participate in the implementation :)

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Answer 2

My AwsSum library can already do multi object delete. The operation in the library is called 'DeleteMultipleObjects':

• https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum/

You can install AwsSum via npm doing:

$ npm install awssum

There is an example here:

• https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum/blob/master/examples/amazon/s3/delete-multiple-objects.js

Hope it goes well and give me a shout if you need any assistance. :)