Delete all items in Recycle Bin using javascript

Question

Is there a way to batch delete all items in the recycle bin on the client side in SharePoint Online?

I've tried using javascript:emptyItems() in the browser but this appears to time out after removing about 2k items. I have 1.5 million items and growing and would like to empty all at once and have a quick and easy way to do this going forward. Is there a way to do this using JSOM, CSOM or REST API?

I'm open to anything which doesn't involve central admin or server side access. Any direction would be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. First Navigate to the recycle bin page (e.g.,http://localhost/_layouts/recyclebin.aspx).
2. Remove the address from address bar, type “javascript:emptyItems()” (Remove the quotes) Press Enter.
3. It will be asked if you really want to empty the recycle bin. Click OK to empty it; click Cancel to leave it alone.

Answer 2

you can achieve by power-shell save below Code in ps1 dont Forget to change site url from code and Run through managment Shell

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

function Remove-SPSiteSecondStageRecycleBin() 
{

    [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite] $siteCollection = Get-SPSite "http://sp:2000/sites/test" -ErrorAction Stop


    $recycleQuery = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRecycleBinQuery;
    $recycleQuery.ItemState = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRecycleBinItemState]::SecondStageRecycleBin;
    $recycleQuery.OrderBy = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRecycleBinOrderBy]::Default;

    $recycledItems = $siteCollection.GetRecycleBinItems($recycleQuery);

    $count = $recycledItems.Count;

    for($i = 0; $i -lt $count; $i++)
    {
        $g = New-Object System.Guid($recycledItems[$i].ID);
        $recycledItems.Delete($g);
    }


    $siteCollection.Dispose()
}

Function Load-SharePoint-Powershell
{ 
    Write-Host "TEST"
    if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null )
    {    
          Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction Stop

    }

}


Load-SharePoint-Powershell
Remove-SPSiteSecondStageRecycleBin 

Answer 3

if your open to rest than use the following api

site collection level (second stage bin):

/_api/site/RecycleBin/deleteAll()  

web level (first stage bin):

/_api/web/RecycleBin/deleteAll()  

its a post method!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/sharepoint-visio/jj246426%28v%3doffice.15%29