Clean up Tailscale nodes, based on hostname

tailscale_node_cleanup.py

import requests

def get_tailscale_nodes(tailnet, api_key) -> list:
  url = f"https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2/tailnet/{tailnet}/devices"
  headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"
  }

  # Step 1: Get the list of all devices
  response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
  if response.status_code != 200:
    print("Error fetching device list:", response.text)
    return False

  return response.json().get("devices", [])

def delete_tailscale_node(api_key, device_id):
  url = f"https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2/device/{device_id}"
  headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"
  }
  delete_response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

  if delete_response.status_code == 200:
    print(f"Node '{device_id}' deleted successfully.")
    return True
  else:
    print("Error deleting node:", delete_response.text)
    return False

tailnet = "" # Email Address
api_key = "tskey-api-***" # Working API key

device_name_to_remove = "server-private-insider-docker2"

devices = get_tailscale_nodes(tailnet, api_key)


print(f'Found {len(devices)} devices')

device_id = None

for device in devices:
  if device.get("authorized") == False:

    if device_name_to_remove in device.get("hostname"):
      device_id = device.get("id")
      delete_tailscale_node(api_key, device_id)