junksweep

Find and clean junk directories — reclaim gigabytes.

A fast CLI tool that scans your projects for node_modules, __pycache__, .git, target, build, and other junk directories, shows how much space they waste, and optionally removes them.

pip install junksweep
junksweep ~/projects --clean

Why?

• node_modules can be gigabytes per project
• __pycache__ and .ruff_cache pile up silently
• Rust target/ directories are huge
• .next, build, dist take space after CI

One command to see it all. One prompt to clean it up.

Install

pip install junksweep

Usage

# Scan current directory
junksweep

# Scan a specific path
junksweep ~/projects

# Scan + prompt to delete
junksweep --clean

# Dry run (show what would be deleted)
junksweep ~/projects --dry-run

# Scan deeper (default: 3 levels)
junksweep --depth 5

# Only show dirs >= 50MB
junksweep --min-size 50

# Machine-readable output
junksweep --json

Default junk list

node_modules, __pycache__, .git, .next, .nuxt, build, dist, target, .cache, .turbo, Pods, .gradle, vendor/bundle, elm-stuff, deps, CMakeFiles, .tox, .eggs, .mypy_cache, .pytest_cache, .ruff_cache, .serverless and more.

Output example

      SIZE    DIR       PATH
──────────  ────────  ──────────────────────────────────────
  1.2GiB    node_modules  my-app/node_modules
340.0MiB    .next         webapp/.next
245.0MiB    target        rust-service/target
 42.0MiB    build         electron-app/build
 12.3MiB    __pycache__   api/__pycache__

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     Total:  1.8GiB across 5 directories

License

MIT