api call not deleting all

[Hairybiker]

Version 2.3.9 [03c10dc]
Limux Mint 19.3 64bit Cinnamon

I got the idea from here, use an api call to clear the queue of a specific type of download.
I am running
curl "http://localhost:8085/sabnzbd/api?mode= ... pikey=<api key>

this appears to delete SOME of the time. It is run after every download from yyy, via a post processing shell script.

Sometimes it leaves the queue untouched, but if I run it from the shell it works.
The script is running according to the log,
2020-04-04 09:01:00,937::INFO::[newsunpack:169] Running external script /home/<USERNAME>/nzb/post/post-tv.sh <...>
2020-04-04 09:01:01,378::DEBUG::[interface:481] API-call from 127.0.0.1 [curl/7.58.0] {'category': u'yyy', 'apikey': u'<HASH>a12f5e3', 'mode': u'history', 'value': u'all', 'name': u'delete'}

[Hairybiker]

It seems to happen when a SINGLE nzb is in the finished queue. It delete's it from the cli but not from the script.

[safihre]

Sorry for slow response!
The history-delete only deletes finished jobs. When a job is still running a post-processing script, it's not really finished yet so it's not deleted.
You can also run this script as a pre-queue script so it deletes them as soon as a new one comes in.

But: if your goal is just to have an empty history, you can just set History Retention in Config > Switches to not keep any jobs.

[Hairybiker]

I didn't get a message about it being answered so I am late as well.

Hmm so could I run it after a delay of say 10 sec?
something like
sleep 10s&&api call&
rest of script

or does it need more

[safihre]

No, because while the script is running the item still won't be considered Finished and won't be removed.
There's no way really to do this with the post-proc script.
Maybe you can give a bit more idea about your use case? You only want to remove a specific set of downloads from your history, but keep the rest? Are these jobs added automatically by an external program or manually?

[Hairybiker]

They are added as rss entries. I only want to remove competed ones from this rss call (e.g. abc) and in the post script I was using the curl with the abc set selected. Most of the downloads are automatically done via radarr/sonarr and they "clean up" after. This rss was generating a lot of small downloads and it was getting cluttered in the results.

Think I have figured it out.

Created a small script call sl.sh running the curl command
added a crontab entry run every 10 min that runs the script.

Overkill maybe but at least it does what I want and doesn't use any processing power.

[safihre]

That's indeed also a way to do it!