If there are no published posts by an author, then the author's profile and cover photos are deleted.

I have a draft that ready to be published by a new author. The script deleted their profile and cover iamges.

ghost-purge-images v3.0.3
Ghost version: v3.6
Reported by @Caucasus-and-Mercury
Related issue #6

display command shows all uploaded images to be removed
I can't reproduce it with Ghost 3.3.0 & ghost-purge-images 3.0.3
Need to investigate, the issue may be related to the API endpoint

- /var/www/ghost/content/images/2019/04/siberiannationalcostumes_yakutiarussia_01.jpg (0.09 MB)
- /var/www/ghost/content/images/2019/04/vladimir-kolodenko---aeroport.JPG (0.04 MB)

📊 Summary:
- 2771 files of 2771 uploaded images (100.00%)
- Total space: 969.57MB

❔ Want to delete this files? Run `ghost-purge-images purge key=YOUR_KEY`
🎁 Open source tool by David Burgos from https://ghostboard.io
ghost-mgr@ghost-caucasusandmercury:/var/www/ghost$ 

I'm trying to use ghost-purge-images to clean up a test site, and am getting the following error:

ghost-purge-images display key=XXX
url https://ghost.sailbits.comghost/api/v2/content/settings/?key=XXX
❌ Error: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND ghost.sailbits.comghost ghost.sailbits.comghost:443

Note that I've replaced my key with XXX but am using a normal key.

The site URL is https://ghost.sailbits.com/ but for some reason it is adding a "ghost" in the middle of the hostname.

Is this compatible with Ghost v5?
I haven't upgraded yet but just curious if this has been looked into before I investigate.
Thanks

When using a storage adapter in Ghost, the purge script reports :

Completed but nothing to do here...
Congrats, all images are being used 👍

Regards.

Want to delete also Tag Images ?

Hi :)

I generated my API keys but I get the following error: ❌ Error: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT MyServerIPAddress:443

Thx

In readme, I did not see mention about ghost v4. Does ghost-purge-images support ghost v4? Does ghost-purge-images support Ubuntu and Windows 10?

Hi,

Thank-you for this script that saves my life ! :-)
All my images are also compressed in Webp when they are uploaded in jpg.

I would like to avoid the script to remove all the used Webp images that are indirectly used because the original file is still use by a content.

Do you known how to implement this rules quickly ?

Thank-you,

Sorry, still doesn't work for me. I'm following the instructions very very carefully. I'm getting this:

root@ghost-caucasusandmercury:~# cd /var/www/ghost
root@ghost-caucasusandmercury:/var/www/ghost# ghost-purge-images display --content-key=69891a65807dc1931c98406ded --admin-key=5cefed645c7944048554b2d5:b50084fd0cdda8fa7cb93fb2f17c2537cd294aa1f540b3f307ca6dbedc48da8b
🔑 Required parameter CONTENT_KEY is missing!
🔑 Required parameter ADMIN_KEY is missing!
❓ Need a key?

• On your Ghost admin > Integrations > Create custom integration
• Copy Content API & Admin API Keys

On a side note, I'm having Ghost-CLI version: 1.9.9 as I'm unable to update it for some reason.

Any idea?

Ghost: 3.33.0 - "Official" docker image

Docker file:

FROM ghost:latest                                                                                                                                                                
USER root                                                                                                                                                                        
RUN npm install -g --production --loglevel verbose --no-save ghost-purge-images                                                                                                  

Command issued inside the container (docker exec...)
Command output:

❌ Error: API Pages - Not valid response

Ghost log:

app_1  | [2020-09-15 16:55:43] INFO "GET /ghost/api/v3/content/authors/?limit=100&page=1&fields=cover_image,profile_image&key=03978e1fdea21f903d8e481c65" 301 3ms
app_1  | [2020-09-15 16:55:43] INFO "GET /ghost/api/v3/content/authors/?limit=100&page=1&fields=cover_image%2Cprofile_image&key=03978e1fdea21f903d8e481c65" 200 18ms
app_1  | [2020-09-15 16:55:43] INFO "GET /ghost/api/v2/admin/pages/?limit=100&page=1&formats=html,mobiledoc" 301 5ms
app_1  | [2020-09-15 16:55:43] ERROR "GET /ghost/api/v2/admin/pages/?limit=100&page=1&formats=html%2Cmobiledoc" 403 5ms
app_1  | 
app_1  | Authorization failed
app_1  | 
app_1  | "Unable to determine the authenticated user or integration. Check that cookies are being passed through if using session authentication."
app_1  | 
app_1  | Error ID:
app_1  |     4b0cab90-f774-11ea-a43c-9570ff40ccb4
app_1  | 
app_1  | ----------------------------------------
app_1  | 
app_1  | NoPermissionError: Authorization failed
app_1  |     at new NoPermissionError (/var/lib/ghost/versions/3.33.0/node_modules/ghost-ignition/lib/errors/index.js:134:23)
app_1  |     at authorizeAdminApi (/var/lib/ghost/versions/3.33.0/core/server/services/auth/authorize.js:28:25)
app_1  |     at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/lib/ghost/versions/3.33.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
app_1  |     at next (/var/lib/ghost/versions/3.33.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
app_1  |     at authenticate (/var/lib/ghost/versions/3.33.0/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:24:13)
app_1  |     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
app_1  | 

A small issue here:

The following images are being deleted each time I run the script

• Publication icon (not Publication logo)
• Twitter card
• Facebook card

These ones are found in Settings-General

It's not that big an issue, as I'm aware of it I just have to re-upload the images again once I've done image-purge. But anyway, it seems like a small bug to me.

Size variants, being in images/size/w[xxxx]/xxxx/xx/xxxxxxx.png, don't get deleted by this tool.

Deletes the Publication icon (favIcon) ?

Hi.

Is there a way to make it work on Ghost(Pro)?

Cheers.

Hello there! Love the plugin! It gives me confidence in the platform as a whole to have something like this maintained as it directly addresses the only thing I disllike about ghost... Media management!

Feature: I would like a button in the admin UI to do this as a front end user.

I understand that this is 100% a massive extension of the scope of this project. While I would love for this plugin to evolve into such a thing I do not expect it to be addressed here and am planning my own media library plugin that would leverage this.

Has any one made any efforts to this end?

Is anyone else interested in contributing to this end?

It could be great to add a command to move the unused files to another directory instead of remove.

Hi there, great work on your part, very appreciated for sure.

Upgrading to the latest 3.0 variant, things doesn't quite work. When I try to run it says

ghost-mgr@ghost-caucasusandmercury:~$ ghost-purge-images display --content-key=69891a65807dc1931c98406ded --admin-key=5cefed645c7944048554b2d5:b50084fd0cdda8fa7cb93fb2f17c2537cd294aa1f540b3f307ca6dbedc48da8b
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'jsonwebtoken'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-purge-images/lib/ghost/auth.js:1:13)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
ghost-mgr@ghost-caucasusandmercury:~$ 

before that, when upgrading, I got a message saying:

root@ghost-caucasusandmercury:~# npm install -g ghost-purge-images
/usr/bin/ghost-purge-images -> /usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-purge-images/bin/ghost-purge-images.js
npm WARN notsup Unsupported engine for [email protected]: wanted: {"node":"8.12.0","npm":"6.0.0"} (current: {"node":"10.18.1","npm":"6.13.4"})
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: [email protected]
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/ghost-purge-images/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
+ [email protected]
added 109 packages from 567 contributors, removed 14 packages and updated 11 packages in 8.765s

And yes, I tried doing the sudo chmod -R a+rw content thing.

...so something about node I guess? Kind regards !

I've got a fork running to support the s3 adaptor I'm using by adding in a flag to specify a custom directory and mounting s3 via fuse. The same approach would seem to work across most storage adaptors. Would be good to see this merged into upstream.

When I run

/var/lib/ghost# ghost-purge-images display --content-key=<myContentKey> --admin-key=<myAdminKey>

in Ghost 3.3.0 I get this error: Error: API Pages - Not valid response

Can someone confirm Ghost 3 is not supported at the moment?

cc @dburgos

After purging images I had a sense some images had dissapeared/errors. Then I made an experiment, sort of.

I added images to my ghost site by various means. I uploaded images by clicking on the add image variant, and by simply dropping them. I uploaded to galleries, and I dropped many images at once. I also uploaded images the ghost-markdown-card-way. I did it on published posts, on pages and with drafts.

The results are that images are dissapearing that should have been left alone. It seems very random and I can't see a pattern. Some images have been removed in a random way. the only pattern I might possibly see is that on a few occasions where I dropped a lot (10+) pics on the post at once, all had been purged.

So obviously something here is not working. I'm on the digitalocean droplet-variant, latest ghost.

The active favicon image is always detected not used

👇 Unused images that can be removed:

• /var/www/site/content/images/2020/12/favicon.png (0.03 MB)
• /var/www/site/content/images/2020/12/favicon_o.png (0.05 MB)

📊 Summary:

• 2 files of 17 uploaded images (11.76%)
• Total space: 0.08MB

Now that Ghost has added the possibility to upload audio, video and other files, it would be terrific if it would be possible to purge those as well.

Hi,
I love your script. One issue I saw, is that it also deletes icons for custom integrations.

Hi, whenever I try to make the script works with my docker installation I got an error :

Error reading config.production.json Error: Cannot find module config.production.json
So I tried to BS by creating this file following the official Ghost doc just to indicate the path of my content and then :
Error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'endsWith' of undefined

Have you ever experienced this ?
Thanks

Hi,
I generate the keys and am running this in the container :

CONTENT_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ADMIN_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ghost-purge-images display --content-key=$CONTENT_KEY --admin-key=$ADMIN_KEY

output:
❌ Error: AxiosError: Request failed with status code 403

ghost log:

Authorization failed

"Unable to determine the authenticated user or integration. Check that cookies are being passed through if using session authentication."

Error ID:
6384b8e0-0502-11ee-8948-e36133aebc76

NoPermissionError: Authorization failed
at authorizeAdminApi (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.49.3/core/server/services/auth/authorize.js:33:25)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.49.3/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at next (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.49.3/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:144:13)
at authenticate (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.49.3/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:28:13)
at runMicrotasks ()
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

[2023-06-07 07:10:31] ERROR "GET /ghost/api/v2/admin/posts/?limit=100&page=1&formats=html%2Cmobiledoc" 403 1ms

Thanks for your work
Is Ghost v5 supported?