Deleting artifacts in artifactory

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I want to delete artifacts in artifactory.I googled and found this link https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Artifactory+REST+API

Here the Delete build,using REST API,is what we are going for at the moment.Can any one give me a general idea how the command should look using curl command.Also in buildname what do i need to specify?

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '16 at 07:58

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For deleting a single artifact or folder you should use the Delete Item API, for example

curl -uadmin:password -XDELETE http://localhost:8080/artifactory/libs-release-local/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/0.9.9

Notice that you will need a user with delete permissions.
If all goes well you should expect a response with a 204 status and no content.

The delete API is intended for deleting build information and is relevant if you are using the Artifactory build integration.

answered Mar 02 '16 at 07:58

Dror Bereznitsky

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We are at Artifactory version 4.12.2. Assume i have 10 repositories and i want to keep only last 20 artifacts in 5 repositories and unlimited in other 5 repositories. How i may automatically delete artifacts older than 20 from only 5 repositories. I attempted to use plugin available from jfrog website, but seems like that will imply deletion rule for all repositories. thanks in advance. – user3232823 Mar 22 '17 at 00:19
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@user3232823 I suggest opening a separate question for this. cannot really address it in a comment – Dror Bereznitsky Mar 22 '17 at 11:55
I received `HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed`. `Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST` – cowlinator Feb 02 '22 at 03:59
Put a space after "-u" and "-X" in order to work, i.e., ```curl -u admin:password -X DELETE ```. – tedyyu Mar 09 '23 at 03:12
I use this command but i got not found error. – Amirhossein Taheri Aug 23 '23 at 10:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 26 '22 at 07:12

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Nowadays there's a tool that can be used for it (note that I am a contributor to that tool):

https://github.com/devopshq/artifactory-cleanup

Assume i have 10 repositories and i want to keep only last 20 artifacts in 5 repositories and unlimited in other 5 repositories

The rule for 10 repositories would look like:

# artifactory-cleanup.yaml
artifactory-cleanup:
  server: https://repo.example.com/artifactory
  # $VAR is auto populated from environment variables
  user: $ARTIFACTORY_USERNAME
  password: $ARTIFACTORY_PASSWORD

  policies:
    - name: reponame
      rules:
        - rule: Repo
          name: "reponame"
        - rule: KeepLatestNFiles
          count: 20

edited Sep 26 '22 at 07:12

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answered Sep 05 '22 at 13:41

Aleksey Burov

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When linking to a website, blog or repo to which you have affiliation, you **must explicitly disclose your involvement**. Otherwise, your post may be flagged as spam. – Adrian Mole Sep 10 '22 at 20:56
@AdrianMole hi, thank you for the note, didn't know that rule! Is there a special flag for it in SO or I just should have mentioned like "I've contributed in the tool"? – Aleksey Burov Sep 26 '22 at 07:06
Something like what I have just edited in will normally suffice. I don't actually think you *are* a spammer, but [this article](https://stackoverflow.com/help/promotion) may be of some help. – Adrian Mole Sep 26 '22 at 07:12
@AdrianMole thank you for your work and the advice, appreciate it! I'm not a spammer, rather a newbie, but we behave the same sometimes... – Aleksey Burov Sep 26 '22 at 07:21

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