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I've a list of 8K+ CiviCRM contacts that have been deemed spam/unwanted. I am looking to clear them from CiviCRM, along with their related Drupal users.

I've found and tested this module: https://www.drupal.org/project/userdelete which will allow me to plug in a list of email addresses, arrived at from joining my list of contacts to the civicrm_uf_match table.

My question is, what is the path of least resistance to handle a clean removal of the CiviCRM contacts?

The API explorer seems to indicate that the contact delete method will only take a single contact id at a time, which would force me to write a module or a rest client to iterate through my list.

Would simply updating the CiviCRM DB directly with is_deleted = 1 do the trick?

I imagine this isn't a new situation...

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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  • Have you tried Search functionality such as "Find Contacts", "Advanced Search", etc? You can find delete contact in the action menu. Also see civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/4518/…
    – jitendra - fuzion
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 4:33
  • The spam contact list has been compiled via some complex logic and conditions directly via SQL query, the list is not something I can just plug in to a basic GUI search.
    – Derek
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 22:08
  • You can add a temporary tag / group with an import from their CiviCRM IDs to make them searchable in the GUI.
    – Thomas Schüttler
    Commented Jan 15, 2018 at 9:18

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Since you are using Drupal, you can install the CiviCRM Entity module, and use Views Bulk Operations to create a View that will delete contacts, or any CiviCRM data in a Drupal Batch API process

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    You'll need the submodule CiviCRM Entity Actions enabled as well
    – jackrabbithanna
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 4:52

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