I have a script that deletes elasticsearch indices with doc count 0, which are not elasticsearch service indexes (indices names beginning with “.”)

Right now I can list the indices, prior to deletion, then the act of deletion happens one at a time.

The issue I am facing is that I want to push the list of indices into a delete request where in theory I will be acting a DELETE request of removing more than one index at a time e.g.:

DELETE /test-index-000001,test-index-000002,test-index-000003

At the moment, what I am struggling with is that my list gets created in the response url as one url:

https://dev-esp-cluster.cw-eng-test.com/[‘test-index-000001’,
‘test-index-000002’, ‘test-index-000003’]

However I think the correct method would be to create a list of delete urls e.g.

https://dev-esp-cluster.cw-eng-test.com/test-index-000001, https://dev-esp-cluster.cw-eng-test.com/test-index-000002, https://dev-esp-cluster.cw-eng-test.com/test-index-000003

So would I need to create an extra list/array of delete urls?

Here is the code:

  content = json.loads(getRequestElasticSearch.text)

  indices_to_delete = []
  for index in content:
        if int(index['docs.count']) == 0 and not index['index'].startswith("."):
           indices_to_delete.append(index['index'])

  print("Indices to be deleted:")
  for idx in indices_to_delete:
      print(idx)
  proceed = input("Do you want to proceed with the deletion of these indices? (y/n): ")
  if proceed.lower() != "y":
     print("Deletion aborted by user.")
     return
  else:
     elastic_console_delete = f"https://{configuration['ELASTIC_SEARCH_URL']}/"
     delete_url = f"{elastic_console_delete}{indices_to_delete}"
     print(delete_url)
     response = requests.delete(delete_url, auth=(elastic_username, elastic_password))
     if  response.status_code == 200:
          print("index deleted -" , "index name:" , index['index'] , ",  doc.count:" , index['docs.count'] , ",  elasticsearch url index:" , delete_url)
     if  response.status_code != 200:
          print ("index not deleted -" , "index name:" , index['index'] , ",  Reason:" , response.content)