Delete Multiple Documents

Example

The following example matches documents in the movies collection in which the runtime is greater than 800 minutes, deleting all documents matched:

coll := client.Database("sample_mflix").Collection("movies")
filter := bson.D{{"runtime", bson.D{{"$gt", 800}}}}
// Deletes all documents that have a "runtime" value greater than 800
results, err := coll.DeleteMany(context.TODO(), filter)
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}

View a fully runnable example.

Expected Result

After you run the full example, it removes the following documents in the movies collection:

// results truncated
{ "_id": ObjectId("573a1397f29313caabce69db"), ... , "runtime": 1256, ... },
{ "_id": ObjectId("573a1397f29313caabce75fe"), ... , "runtime": 910, ... },
{ "_id": ObjectId("573a1399f29313caabcee1aa"), ... , "runtime": 1140, ... },
{ "_id": ObjectId("573a13a6f29313caabd18ae0"), ... , "runtime": 877, ... }

For an example on how to find multiple documents, see Find Multiple Documents.

Additional Information

To learn more about deleting documents, see Delete Documents.