A simple script to delete all the draft entries of the specified content type in Contentful

contentful_delete_many_entries.js

(async () => {
  const contentful = require('contentful-management')
  const parallel = require('async-parallel');

  // change these to match your info
  const space_id = 'your-space-id'
  const environment_id = 'your-env-id'
  const content_type = 'your-content-type-id'
  const cmaToken = 'your-CMA-token'
  const concurrency = 3 // adjust down if you are seeing many rate limit warnings

  const client = contentful.createClient({accessToken: cmaToken})
  const space = await client.getSpace(space_id)
  const environment = await space.getEnvironment(environment_id)
  parallel.setConcurrency(concurrency);

  const getEntries = async () => {
    let all_entries = []
    let query = {
      content_type: content_type,
      'sys.publishedVersion[exists]': false, // this limits the query to draft entries
      limit: 1
    }

    // this gets the total quantity of entries to be deleted
    let entry_quantity = (await environment.getEntries(query)).total

    // this gets all the entries of the specified query
    for (let index = 0; index < entry_quantity / 1000; index++) {
      query.limit = 1000
      query.skip = index * 1000
      let page = (await environment.getEntries(query)).items
      all_entries = all_entries.concat(page)
    }
    
    return all_entries
  }

  const deleteEntry = async (entry) => {
    try {
      await entry.delete()  
    } catch (error) {
      console.log(error)
    }
  }
  
  const start = new Date()
  const entries = await getEntries()
  console.log(`Total entries: ${entries.length}`)
  const result = await parallel.each(entries, deleteEntry)
  const end = new Date()
  const duration = (end - start)/1000
  console.log(`Duration: ${duration} seconds`)
  console.log(`Speed: ${(entries.length/duration).toFixed(2)} entries per second`)
})()