Stupid random utility I wrote to play with paging requests in pythons. Gets all and deletes HC articles...still not up to par for pagination. Flattening needs better list comprehension logic.

delete_hc_articles.py

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import json

auth = HTTPBasicAuth('EMAIL_ADDR/token', 'TOKEN')
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}


s = requests.Session()

def get_all_articles(r_array, next):
	if(next == None):
		url = "https://SUBDOMAIN.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/articles.json"
	else:
		url = next
	response = s.get(url, auth=auth)
	jresponse = response.json()
	if(jresponse['next_page'] == None):
		r_array.append(jresponse['articles'])
		flat_array = [y for x in r_array for y in x]
		len(flat_array)
		return flat_array
	else:
		r_array.append(jresponse['articles'])
		return get_all_articles(r_array, jresponse['next_page'])


def delete_articles(ids):
	count = len(ids)
	for y in range(0, count):
		url = "https://SUBDOMAIN.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/articles/{0}.json".format(ids[y])
		print(url)
		response = s.delete(url, headers=headers, auth=auth)
		print("{0} ********************************************************* STATUS: {1}\n".format(y, response.status_code))
		print(str(response.text))
		print("\n")
		print("--------*******************************************--------")
	return	

articles = get_all_articles([], next=None)
count = len(articles)
print("Deleting a total of {0} articles now".format(count))
ids = []
for x in range(0, count):
	ids.append(articles[x]['id'])
	delete_articles(ids)
	print(ids)

print("ALL DONE")