Delete multiple users from Chameleon

README.md

Delete multiple users from Chameleon

Usage: ruby ~/Documents/chameleon-delete-multiple-users.rb ~/Documents/users-to-delete.csv (assuming these are in your Documents folder)

1. Save chameleon-delete-multiple-users.rb to your Documents folder
2. Open the file and add your CHAMELEON_API_SECRET and save the file
3. Use example-users-to-delete.csv or example-email-to-delete.csv for a sample of the CSV format required
4. Save the users-to-delete.csv to your Documents folder
5. Open Terminal app and run the "Usage" command above ⬆️
6. Confirm you want to Run it now with y and hit ENTER.

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Please reach out to hello@chameleon.io if you have any questions

chameleon-delete-multiple-users.rb

api_secret = '<CHAMELEON_API_SECRET>' # Add this and save the file

require 'csv'
require 'json'

return puts('Please add your Chameleon API Secret ⬆️') if /API_SECRET/ === api_secret
return puts("Please provide a CSV filename to open\n `ruby chameleon-delete-multiple-users.rb CSV-FILE-TO-DELETE-FROM.csv") unless ARGV[0]
return puts("The given CSV file was not found") unless File.exists?(ARGV[0])

lines = CSV.parse(File.read(ARGV[0])) # first argument after the script name
header = lines.shift # don't need the header

puts "Do you want to delete #{lines.count} user#{lines.count == 1 ? '' : 's'}? [y/n]"
answer = STDIN.gets.chomp

return puts("Ok, maybe another time") unless /^y(es)?$/ === answer

puts "Starting the deletion of #{lines.count} user#{lines.count == 1 ? '' : 's'}...\n"

lines.each do |line|
  url = 'https://api.chameleon.io/v3/edit/profiles/forget'
  uid_or_email = line[0] # if the UID or email is in the first column (or pick the 0-indexed column index you want to use)

  url += (/@/ === uid_or_email ? "?email=#{uid_or_email}" : "?uid=#{uid_or_email}")

  response = `curl -s -X DELETE -H "X-Account-Secret: #{api_secret}" -H "Accept: application/json" #{url}`.chomp
  json = JSON.parse(response) rescue nil
  
  puts /deletion/ === response && json ?
    "Removed '#{uid_or_email}' from Chameleon with Deletion ID '#{json['deletion']['id']}'" :
    "Error removing '#{uid_or_email}' from Chameleon: Raw response: #{response}"

  sleep 0.25 # to be nice to the Chameleon API (remove ~4 per second)
  puts
end

example-emails-to-delete.csv

Email
alice@testing.com
bob@testing.com
real@example.com
user@example.com

example-users-to-delete.csv

User ID
93
8492
9349
109