How-to bulk delete Zendesk users

Situation

After successfully performing a bulk import into Zendesk....I needed to clear out all the accounts.  I had to run this process multiple times as it appears to only return a subset of the users that matched the criteria.

Create text file full of end-users

curl -v -u {email-address}:{password} https://{company}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search.json?role="end-user" > zd_end-users.txt

Python script to delete all users in a text file

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

import json

json_data = open('zd_end-users.txt')

data = json.load(json_data)

for user in data['users']:

        os.system("curl -v -u {email-address}:{password} https://{company}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/%s.json -X DELETE" %user["id"])

json_data.close()

References

http://developer.zendesk.com/documentation/rest_api/introduction.html