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diff --git a/docs/admin_api/README.rst b/docs/admin_api/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d4f564cfae --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/admin_api/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Admin APIs +========== + +This directory includes documentation for the various synapse specific admin +APIs available. + +Only users that are server admins can use these APIs. A user can be marked as a +server admin by updating the database directly, e.g.: + +``UPDATE users SET admin = 1 WHERE name = '@foo:bar.com'`` + +Restarting may be required for the changes to register. diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..986efe40f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Purge History API +================= + +The purge history API allows server admins to purge historic events from their +database, reclaiming disk space. + +Depending on the amount of history being purged a call to the API may take +several minutes or longer. During this period users will not be able to +paginate further back in the room from the point being purged from. + +The API is simply: + +``POST /_matrix/client/r0/admin/purge_history/<room_id>/<event_id>`` + +including an ``access_token`` of a server admin. diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_remote_media.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_remote_media.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b26c6a9e7b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_remote_media.rst @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Purge Remote Media API +====================== + +The purge remote media API allows server admins to purge old cached remote +media. + +The API is:: + + POST /_matrix/client/r0/admin/purge_media_cache + + { + "before_ts": <unix_timestamp_in_ms> + } + +Which will remove all cached media that was last accessed before +``<unix_timestamp_in_ms>``. + +If the user re-requests purged remote media, synapse will re-request the media +from the originating server. |