Mealie Admin: Maintenance API

The Admin: Maintenance API from Mealie — 5 operation(s) for admin: maintenance.

Operations 5

GET /api/admin/maintenance Get Maintenance Summary #
GET /api/admin/maintenance/storage Get Storage Details #
POST /api/admin/maintenance/clean/images Clean Images #
POST /api/admin/maintenance/clean/temp Clean Temp #
POST /api/admin/maintenance/clean/recipe-folders Clean Recipe Folders #

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mealie-admin-maintenance-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: 'Mealie Admin: Maintenance API'
  description: '

    Mealie is a web application for managing your recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists. This is the Restful

    API interactive documentation that can be used to explore the API. If you''re justing getting started with

    the API and want to get started quickly, you can use the

    [API Usage | Mealie Docs](https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/api-usage/)

    as a reference for how to get started.



    If you have any questions or comments about mealie, please use the discord server to talk to the developers or other

    community members. If you''d like to file an issue, please use the

    [GitHub Issue Tracker | Mealie](https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/issues/new/choose)



    ## Helpful Links

    - [Home Page](https://mealie.io)

    - [Documentation](https://docs.mealie.io)

    - [Discord](https://discord.gg/QuStdQGSGK)

    - [Demo](https://demo.mealie.io)

    '
  version: nightly
tags:
- name: 'Admin: Maintenance'
paths:
  /api/admin/maintenance:
    get:
      tags:
      - 'Admin: Maintenance'
      summary: Get Maintenance Summary
      description: Get the maintenance summary
      operationId: get_maintenance_summary_api_admin_maintenance_get
      security:
      - OAuth2PasswordBearer: []
      parameters:
      - name: accept-language
        in: header
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Accept-Language
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MaintenanceSummary'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /api/admin/maintenance/storage:
    get:
      tags:
      - 'Admin: Maintenance'
      summary: Get Storage Details
      operationId: get_storage_details_api_admin_maintenance_storage_get
      security:
      - OAuth2PasswordBearer: []
      parameters:
      - name: accept-language
        in: header
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Accept-Language
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MaintenanceStorageDetails'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /api/admin/maintenance/clean/images:
    post:
      tags:
      - 'Admin: Maintenance'
      summary: Clean Images
      description: Purges all the images from the filesystem that aren't .webp
      operationId: clean_images_api_admin_maintenance_clean_images_post
      security:
      - OAuth2PasswordBearer: []
      parameters:
      - name: accept-language
        in: header
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Accept-Language
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /api/admin/maintenance/clean/temp:
    post:
      tags:
      - 'Admin: Maintenance'
      summary: Clean Temp
      operationId: clean_temp_api_admin_maintenance_clean_temp_post
      security:
      - OAuth2PasswordBearer: []
      parameters:
      - name: accept-language
        in: header
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Accept-Language
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /api/admin/maintenance/clean/recipe-folders:
    post:
      tags:
      - 'Admin: Maintenance'
      summary: Clean Recipe Folders
      description: Deletes all the recipe folders that don't have names that are valid UUIDs
      operationId: clean_recipe_folders_api_admin_maintenance_clean_recipe_folders_post
      security:
      - OAuth2PasswordBearer: []
      parameters:
      - name: accept-language
        in: header
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Accept-Language
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
components:
  schemas:
    MaintenanceSummary:
      properties:
        dataDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Datadirsize
        cleanableImages:
          type: integer
          title: Cleanableimages
        cleanableDirs:
          type: integer
          title: Cleanabledirs
      type: object
      required:
      - dataDirSize
      - cleanableImages
      - cleanableDirs
      title: MaintenanceSummary
    MaintenanceStorageDetails:
      properties:
        tempDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Tempdirsize
        backupsDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Backupsdirsize
        groupsDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Groupsdirsize
        recipesDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Recipesdirsize
        userDirSize:
          type: string
          title: Userdirsize
      type: object
      required:
      - tempDirSize
      - backupsDirSize
      - groupsDirSize
      - recipesDirSize
      - userDirSize
      title: MaintenanceStorageDetails
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
      - loc
      - msg
      - type
      title: ValidationError
    SuccessResponse:
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          title: Message
        error:
          type: boolean
          title: Error
          default: false
      type: object
      required:
      - message
      title: SuccessResponse
  securitySchemes:
    OAuth2PasswordBearer:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        password:
          scopes: {}
          tokenUrl: /api/auth/token