Delete all products in a collection

[GrantDB]

Is there an easy way to remove all products in a collection?  I know I can loop through and delete, but that seems a bit intensive

Currently I delete the whole collection and recreate, but that doesn't seem a good way to do that

Thanks

Grant

[JHKCreate]

Hi There!

Is it a manual or smart collection? If manual, you can select in batch on the Products page and do the following:

Let me know!

[GrantDB]

Apologies, I should have been clearer.

This would need to be through an api\graphql call and is a manual collection

Thanks

Grant

[CalD]

Hey @GrantDB,

Check out the collectionRemoveProducts mutation for this! Hope that helps.

[surpriseshoppin]

Hi JHKC.

I have tried deleting products from collection as stated in your message.

Please check and let me know and sorry for the delay.

From  Surpriseshoppin

[GrantDB]

I used that mutation and it does work.  I was actually just hoping for a remove all (wildcard) rather than having to give all the product IDs

Thanks

Grant

[surpriseshoppin]

I am confused , dont know where we are at with this matter.

[GrantDB]

I need to use the api and I need to loop through the products to delete them using collectionRemoveProducts.  There isn't the ability to delete the products through say a wildcard, delete all, leaving the empty collection in place.

Using collectionRemoveProducts will be OK for me, as the collection will only have 100 or so items, I should poll the job to see when it has finished, as mentioned in the docs

Thanks

Grant

[surpriseshoppin]

Can i ask you, what do you mean by poll the job? 

I have check collections and cant see any products.

[GrantDB]

Not sure I understand what the question is.

https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/graphql/reference/mutation/collectionremoveproducts

The response for the request is a job id that should be polled