Member delete API calls responds with 200 but doesnt delete

[jlooper2020]

Hi there,

So I have embarked on a project to remove all nodes from a network. The only way to do this it seems is by use of the API.

I wrote out an API calls to get all the node information for each member and got a count just shy of 8500.
Ok, thats a lot, no worries. Whats the rate limit? for me 20 API calls per second. Ok so limiting it to 1 API call a second is more than sufficient, cool.

If I select a nodeID, and manually call a deletion… Woo it deletes.
So the premise and theory check out. So how do I delete them all, I would need to loop through all 8500 members and call a deletion.

Well here we go

# Replace NETWORK_ID with the ID of the network you want to remove nodes from
# Replace AUTH_TOKEN with your auth token
$networkID = "PUT NETWORK ID HERE"
$authToken = "PUT AUTHTOKEN HERE"

$headers = @{
    "Authorization" = "Bearer $authToken"
}

# Get a list of all nodes in the network
$nodes = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://api.zerotier.com/api/v1/network/$networkID/member" -Headers $headers).Content | ConvertFrom-Json

$nodes = $nodes | sort-object -Property lastOnline
# Loop through each node and remove it from the network
foreach ($node in $nodes) {
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://api.zerotier.com/api/v1/network/$networkID/member/$($node.id)" -Method DELETE -Headers $headers
    start-sleep 1
}

Left it running overnight… still shy of 8500.

I really don’t get it.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

p.s. Its Powershell

[zt-grant]

Is your network set to Public access? Deletion is not possible from public networks, since as soon as the client tries to join again it would just come back otherwise.

[jlooper2020]

It’s set to private as I considered that it would be exactly as you described if not.

The odd thing is that it allows me to delete individual records, but not when I loop it through.

[jlooper2020]

Ok I found the problem. Took a good night’s sleep to find it.

The API URI does not like arrays, or even pulling data from an array within a URI. You have to feed it an absolute.

So here is the updated code for anyone that wants to use it.

$networkID = "NETWORK ID HERE"
$authToken = "AUTHTOKEN HERE"

$headers = @{
    "Authorization" = "Bearer $authToken"
}

# Get a list of all nodes in the network
$nodes = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://api.zerotier.com/api/v1/network/$networkID/member" -Headers $headers).Content | ConvertFrom-Json

# Loop through each node and remove it from the network
foreach ($node in $nodes) {
    $target = $node.nodeId
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://api.zerotier.com/api/v1/network/$networkID/member/$target" -Method DELETE -Headers $headers
    #start-sleep 0.5
}

The major change here… instead of specifying that a variable is an absolute once populated, make a variable with nothing but the info you need in it.