A quick example on how to purge a group from a CKAN instance via the CKAN API. You will need to edit the code to set the values for your CKAN URI, API key, and the name of the group that you wish to purge. Note that this example requires the ckanap Python module: https://github.com/open-data/ckanapi

ckanApiPurgeOrgExample.py

import ckanapi

ckanUrl = 'http://uri.to.your.ckan.instance'
apiKey='apiKeyForCkanSysadmin'
groupName='nameOfGroupToBePurged'


def purgeCkanGroup(ckanUrl,apiKey,groupId):
    """
    This function purges an organization from a CKAN instance via the CKAN API.

    Args: ckanUrl -  string  The URL for the CKAN instance that will receive the request.
          apiKey - string  The authorization key for a CKAN user with rights to delete or purge orgs
          groupId - string  The name or guid associated with the group to be purged

    Requires: CKAN version >=2.2
              ckanapi Python module: https://github.com/open-data/ckanapi
    """

    ckan = ckanapi.RemoteCKAN(ckanUrl, apikey=apiKey)
    ckan.action.group_purge(id=groupId)


purgeCkanGroup(ckanUrl,apiKey,groupName)