Delete - Upstash Documentation

Delete Command for Python SDK

The delete method allows you to delete documents from your index using various criteria.

DeletePayloadobjectrequired

idsstring[] | number[] | string | number

One or more document IDs to delete.

prefixstring

A string prefix to match document IDs for deletion. All documents with IDs starting with this prefix will be deleted.

filterstring

A filter to delete documents based on content fields.

Deleting document with filter is a O(N) operation that performs a full scan. Therefore, it might be slow for large indexes.

Responseintrequired

The number of documents that were successfully deleted.

Delete by IDs Array

index.delete(ids=["star-wars", "inception"]);

Delete by Prefix

index.delete(prefix="star-");

Delete with Filter

index.delete(filter="age > 30");