how to delete all of my assistants from vapi?
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Richard
03/19/2025, 6:47 AMI want to delete all of my assistants and there are hundreds of assistants so how do I delete all of them in one-go?
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giorgior27
03/19/2025, 2:14 PMIf you can code a bit just write a function to list all the assistants through api and store their id and then a for loop that delete all of them.
If you prefer not code solution maybe a work around could be create a new organisation and delete the current organisation. Just take care if you have file in the old organisation that you want to have in the new one
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Tahutipai
03/19/2025, 4:15 PMI can paste you a bash script I have that does exactly this if you want?
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Aniah
03/19/2025, 10:08 PMHey Richard, checking if this is resolved for you.
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Richard
03/20/2025, 12:15 AMYup please paste it in
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Tahutipai
03/20/2025, 2:27 AMhi @Richard , sure thing, will paste below. FYI I have many bash scripts for directly manipulating VAPI agents and files etc, if you need - just hmu.
P.S Not sure about your situation, but in case you have same situation as us - we are programmatically createing vapi agents with Python. I wanted a way to easily "delete all automatically-created agents" from the vapi dash, without deleting the agents we had manually created on the dash. If you have that problem, I have a solution for that as well.
Here is your script, just put your api key in:
Tahutipai
03/20/2025, 2:27 AM#!/bin/bash
# Bash script to delete all vapi agents from dash. Contact drvertigo@gmail.com for questions.
# Set your api key here
VAPI_API_KEY=""
# Exit if API key is not set
[ -z "$VAPI_API_KEY" ] && { echo "Warning: VAPI_API_KEY is not set. Please set it before running the script."; exit 1; }
#
# Fetch all agents and extract IDs
agent_ids_to_delete=($(curl -s -X GET "https://api.vapi.ai/assistant" -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAPI_API_KEY" | jq -r '.[].id'))
echo "Number of Vapi Agents to be deleted: ${#agent_ids_to_delete[@]}"
read -p "Type YES if you are sure you want to delete all vapi agents from your dashboard: " confirmation
[ "$confirmation" != "YES" ] && { echo "Operation cancelled."; exit 1; }
for agent_id in "${agent_ids_to_delete[@]}"; do
echo "Deleting agent: $agent_id"
curl -s -X DELETE "https://api.vapi.ai/assistant/$agent_id" -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAPI_API_KEY" && echo "Deleted $agent_id"
done
echo -e "\nFinished"
Tahutipai
03/20/2025, 2:29 AMthat formatted terribly, so I stuck it in pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/3UvXr6ew
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Richard
03/20/2025, 5:33 AMYeah we too are creating agents with Typescript and it's huge in numbers. Hence, we want to delete some of the agents which are not in usage
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Tahutipai
03/21/2025, 4:30 AMUnderstand. Let me know if you want a simple way to automatically delete auto-created agents.
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