List and delete all threads

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The assistants API allow you to create, retrieve, modify, and delete threads. But there seems to be no way to list or delete all threads.

This means that if I programmatically create a bunch of threads (whether or not I add messages to them), those threads will presumably be idle somewhere attached to the assistant.

It would be nice to have an way to list and/or delete all threads for the sake of housekeeping. Or does this not matter?

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Yeah. It actually freaked me out when I first tested it a couple of times. I was not able to delete a couple of threads. I was afraid it will go on and on and accumulate charges. lol

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Using the python requests library and the session token from above, this looks like…

import requests as req

url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/threads"
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", 
    "Openai-Organization": f"{org}", 
    "OpenAI-Beta": "assistants=v1"
}

resp = req.get(url, headers=headers)

A full script to delete all threads:

import requests as req
from alive_progress import alive_it

token = "the_token"
org = "myorg"
url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/threads"

headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", 
    "Openai-Organization": f"{org}", 
    "OpenAI-Beta": "assistants=v1"
}
params = {"limit": 10}
resp = req.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
ids = [t['id'] for t in resp.json()['data']]

while len(ids) > 0:
    for tid in alive_it(ids, force_tty=True):
        client.beta.threads.delete(tid)
        time.sleep(1)
    resp = req.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
    ids = [t['id'] for t in resp.json()['data']]

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This still works however I found that I had to add my project key as well. You can find it in your profile settings and in the inspector.

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I expanded on this and posted python code a while back, giving an “organization explorer”, using web’s oauth mechanism instead to get account information and session key, then letting you list all organizations and projects within them, then a demo of listing that project’s threads (or the playground’s threads) where you could then continue writing the actual deleting.