Mass-deletion of Drupal nodetypes

drupal_mass-delete_node.php

<?php
/**
 * Mass delete nodes of $nodetype
 * put the file in the Drupal root and adjust $nodetype and $limit as you like
 */
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

$nodetype = "INSERT_NODETYPE_HERE";
$limit = 100;
$results = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE type='%s' LIMIT %d", $nodetype, $limit);

$count = 0;

while ($result = db_fetch_object($results)) {
  node_delete($result->nid);
  print 'Deleted node: ' . $result->nid . '<br />';
  $count++;
}

print "Total deleted: $count";

?>