This script will delete directories from Artifactory that have artifacts that have not been downloaded in "x" amount of days. In this example it is 8 days. Tried to just delete the individual artifacts but needed the pro version to do that. We are just deleting the directories instead since that appears to work in the free version. This is more …

clean_aged_artifacts.rb

#!/bin/env ruby

# --- Configuration ---------------------------------

# Remove artifacts which were created before $age_days ago and haven't been downloaded in recent $age_days.  
$age_days = 8

# The repository to be cleaned.
$repo = 'lib-release-local'

$user = 'admin'
$password = 'password'

$host = 'localhost:8081'
$artifactory_root_path = '/artifactory'

$old_url = ''

# --- Configuration end ------------------------------


require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

def handle_unused_result(result)
        if result != -1
	   JSON.parse(result)["results"].each { |artifact|
	  	   delete_artifact(artifact["uri"])
	   }
        end

        if result == -1
           puts "No artifacts found that need to be deleted!!!!!"
        end
end

def delete_artifact(artifact_uri)
	%r|.*/#{$repo}/(.*)/.*| =~ artifact_uri
	url = "#{$artifactory_root_path}/#{$repo}/#{$1}"
	
	if $old_url != url
	
		puts "this directory will be deleted " + url;
		$old_url = url

		uri = URI.parse("http://localhost:8081")

#		http = Net::HTTP.new($host)
	        http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

		request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url) #it appears that the free version will allow you to delete directories
#	        request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(artifact_uri) the artifact_uri is the actual artifact and this will only work on the pro version
		request.basic_auth($user, $password)
		response = http.request(request)
		puts "#{response.code} #{response.body}\n"
	end
end

def retrieve_unused_artifacts()
	since = (Time.now - $age_days * 3600*24).to_i * 1000
	url = "#{$artifactory_root_path}/api/search/usage?notUsedSince=#{since}&createdBefore=#{since}&repos=#{$repo}"
	puts url

	uri = URI.parse("http://localhost:8081")


#	http = Net::HTTP.new($host)
        http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
	http.read_timeout = 500
	request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
	request.basic_auth($user, $password)
	response = http.request(request)

	if response.code != "200"
		puts "#{response.code} #{response.body}"
#		exit!
                return -1
	end

	save_file(response.body)
	
	return response.body
end

def save_file(result)
	File.open('unused_artifactorys.txt', 'w') { |f| f.puts(result) }
end

def load_file()
	File.open('unused_artifactorys.txt') { |f| f.gets }
end

handle_unused_result(retrieve_unused_artifacts())

this can be simplified by using the rest_client gem, which requires ruby 1.9.3(I think, at least 1.9 minimally)