Loops through all projects a user has available in gcloud and updates all of their buckets to clear the soft delete policy

soft_delete_clear.py

import subprocess

# Function to run shell commands
def run_command(command):
    try:
        output = subprocess.check_output(command, shell=True, text=True)
        return output.strip()  # Return output with whitespace stripped
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print(f"Command failed with error: {e}")
        return None

# Check if gcloud is installed
if run_command("type gcloud") is None:
    print("gcloud is not installed. Please install it and configure your account.")
    exit(1)

# Get all projects
project_ids = run_command("gcloud projects list --format='value(projectId)'")
if project_ids:
    project_ids = project_ids.split('\n')  # Split output into list of project IDs
else:
    print("Failed to fetch project IDs or no projects available.")
    exit(1)

# Loop through all projects
for project_id in project_ids:
    print(f"Updating buckets in project: {project_id}")
    print(f"Setting current project to: {project_id}")
    # REMOVE THE BELOW TWO LINES IF YOU WANT TO GO BUCKET/BUCKET
    update_result = run_command(f"gcloud storage buckets update --clear-soft-delete gs://'*'")
    print (update_result)
    
    """
    Uncomment the bottom lines to loop through bucket by bucket and update the soft-delete duration
    
    
    # List all buckets in the current project and update the soft-delete duration
    bucket_names = run_command(f"gcloud storage buckets list --project {project_id} --format='value(name)'")
    if bucket_names:
        bucket_names = bucket_names.split('\n')  # Split output into list of bucket names
        for bucket_name in bucket_names:
            print(f"Updating bucket: {bucket_name}")
            # UNCOMMENT BELOW 4 LINES TO ACTUALLY UPDATE BUCKET
            # Clear Soft Delete Policy
            # update_result = run_command(f"gcloud storage buckets update --clear-soft-delete gs://'*'")
            #if update_result is not None:
            #    print(f"Updated {bucket_name} bucket.")
            #else:
             #   print(f"Failed to update {bucket_name}.")
    else:
        print("No buckets found or failed to retrieve bucket list.")
    """
print("All buckets updated successfully.")

There are 2 sets of comment-outs here in the lower part. Please make sure you remove both if you actually want the bucketbybucket change to take place.