[Tips & Tricks] Drupal 10: Remove all medias entities from the site programmatically

Sometimes we need to completely remove media entities, for example, when you copy a site for another project.

You can use custom code in your custom module or install devel_php and run with admin interface on /devel/php.

Below are two examples.

For small and middle websites.

$ids = \Drupal::entityQuery('media')->execute();
$storageHandler = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('media');
$entities = $storageHandler->loadMultiple($ids);
$storageHandler->delete($entities);

For large websites, when you have, for example, 20k+ entities.

$ids = \Drupal::entityQuery('media')->execute();
$storageHandler = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('media');
$entities = $storageHandler->loadMultiple($ids);
foreach ($entities as $entity) {
  $entity->delete();
}

Works in case if you want to load all media by bundle/type and delete after.

$ids = \Drupal::entityQuery('media')->condition('bundle', 'remote_video')->execute();
$storageHandler = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('media');
$entities = $storageHandler->loadMultiple($ids);
foreach ($entities as $entity) {
  $entity->delete();
}

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Drupal 10: Remove all medias entities from the site programmatically

Ruslan Piskarov

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