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Purge History API
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=================
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The purge history API allows server admins to purge historic events from their
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database, reclaiming disk space.
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Depending on the amount of history being purged a call to the API may take
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several minutes or longer. During this period users will not be able to
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paginate further back in the room from the point being purged from.
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The API is:
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``POST /_matrix/client/r0/admin/purge_history/<room_id>[/<event_id>]``
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including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
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By default, events sent by local users are not deleted, as they may represent
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the only copies of this content in existence. (Events sent by remote users are
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deleted, and room state data before the cutoff is always removed).
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To delete local events as well, set ``delete_local_events`` in the body:
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.. code:: json
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{
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"delete_local_events": true
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}
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The caller must specify the point in the room to purge up to. This can be
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specified by including an event_id in the URI, or by setting a
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``purge_up_to_event_id`` or ``purge_up_to_ts`` in the request body. If an event
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id is given, that event (and others at the same graph depth) will be retained.
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If ``purge_up_to_ts`` is given, it should be a timestamp since the unix epoch,
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in milliseconds.
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