YouTrack attachment cleaner

With this tiny script, you can batch-remove attachments from issues by query.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/nepda/youtrack-attachment-cleaner.git
cd youtrack-attachment-cleaner
composer install

Parameters

• h|host The youtrack host/URL
• u|username The login username
• p|password The login password
• q|query The search query for the issues
• f|pattern An optional filter/pattern for attachment filenames
• l|limit The limit/maximum of issues fetched, default is 100.
• d|dry-run If set, no attachments will be deleted, just output, what would the script do

Example

To delete the first 1000 matching resolved issues in project 'Test' with attachments, which are created between 1990-01-01 and 2015-01-01.

php src/cleaner.php \
    -h https://**.myjetbrains.com/youtrack \
    -u root -p '**secret**' \
    -q 'project: Test has: attachments created: 1990-01-01 .. 2015-01-01 State: Resolved' \
    --pattern 'backtrace|logfile' \
    --limit 1000

You can run this line until no results are found.