How to delete all products from a large catalog?

Question

I'm working on importing ~40k products into Magento. I need an easy way to remove all products in between tests, but trying to do this from the admin errors out before making it very far.

If I try to truncate the table's directly, I encounter a lot of dependencies that prevent the actions.

Is it possible to erase all products without using the admin?

Answer 1

If you are importing via Mage_ImportExport there is also an option "DELETE". If you apply this on the same import file, all SKUs contained in this file will be deleted.

In code this is ->setBehavior(Mage_ImportExport_Model_Import::BEHAVIOR_DELETE);

You still can truncate the specific product tables via SQL - but of course you have to resolve all the dependencies and also truncate those tables.

Or: Create a "clean" database dump before importing and apply this dump before each test.

Answer 2

You can delete all the product using Direct Sql.

Please take backup your database, and run the following sql queries.

Reset all product tables. Beware, below script will delete ALL your product data so do it carefully.

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_bundle_option`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_bundle_option_value`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_bundle_selection`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_datetime`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_decimal`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_gallery`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_int`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_media_gallery`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_media_gallery_value`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_text`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_tier_price`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity_varchar`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link_attribute`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link_attribute_decimal`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link_attribute_int`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link_attribute_varchar`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_link_type`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option_price`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option_title`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option_type_price`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option_type_title`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_option_type_value`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_super_attribute`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_super_attribute_label`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_super_attribute_pricing`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_super_link`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_enabled_index`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_website`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_entity`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cataloginventory_stock`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cataloginventory_stock_item`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cataloginventory_stock_status`;
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_type` VALUES(1, 'relation');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_type` VALUES(3, 'super');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_type` VALUES(4, 'up_sell');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_type` VALUES(5, 'cross_sell');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_attribute` VALUES(1, 1, 'position', 'int');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_attribute` VALUES(2, 3, 'position', 'int');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_attribute` VALUES(3, 3, 'qty', 'decimal');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_attribute` VALUES(4, 4, 'position', 'int');
INSERT INTO `catalog_product_link_attribute` VALUES(5, 5, 'position', 'int');
INSERT INTO `cataloginventory_stock` VALUES(1, 'Default');
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

Remove the Product counts from category at back-end

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_category_product`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_category_product_index`;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

Remove the Bestseller and Most view Products at Dashboards

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE TABLE `report_compared_product_index`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `report_viewed_product_aggregated_daily`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `report_viewed_product_aggregated_monthly`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `report_viewed_product_aggregated_yearly`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `report_viewed_product_index`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `sales_bestsellers_aggregated_daily`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `sales_bestsellers_aggregated_monthly`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `sales_bestsellers_aggregated_yearly`;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

Flush all the flat table of products

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
DELETE FROM catalog_product_flat_1;
DELETE FROM catalog_product_flat_2;
DELETE FROM catalog_product_flat_3;
DELETE FROM catalog_product_flat_4;
DELETE FROM catalog_product_flat_5;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

Remove the review and rating of products

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE table `rating_option_vote`; 
TRUNCATE table `rating_option_vote_aggregated`;
TRUNCATE table `review`; 
TRUNCATE table `review_detail`; 
TRUNCATE table `review_entity_summary`; 
TRUNCATE table `review_store`;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

For enterprise flush the following tables

`SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_category_flat_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_category_product_cat_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_category_product_index_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_flat_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalog_product_index_price_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cataloginventory_stock_status_cl`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `catalogsearch_fulltext_cl`;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;`

Answer 3

Have you looked at Magmi? One of its "advanced" plugins is a Clear Catalog that is super quick and even resets the ID to 1.

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