diff --git a/DHIS2/metadata_manipulation/remove_old_roles.py b/DHIS2/metadata_manipulation/remove_old_roles.py
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+import json
+
+from d2apy import dhis2api
+from ipython_genutils.py3compat import xrange
+
+
+def init_api(url, username, password):
+    return dhis2api.Dhis2Api(url, username, password)
+query_old_roles = "/userRoles.json?filter=name:$like:_old_&paging=false&fields=id"
+query_users_roles = "/users?filter=userCredentials.userRoles.id:in:[%s]&fields=*&paging=false"
+api = init_api("https://..", "user", "pass")
+
+userRoles = api.get(query_old_roles)
+id_filter = ""
+for role in userRoles["userRoles"]:
+    id_filter = id_filter + role["id"]+","
+users = api.get((query_users_roles % id_filter).replace(",]","]"))
+for user in users["users"]:
+    usercreed = user['userCredentials']
+
+    new_list = []
+    for i in xrange(len(usercreed["userRoles"])):
+        is_old_role = False
+        if (usercreed["userRoles"][i]["id"] in id_filter):
+            is_old_role = True
+        if not is_old_role:
+            new_list.append(usercreed["userRoles"][i])
+    usercreed["userRoles"] = new_list
+
+print (users)
+
+with open('user_result.json', 'w') as json_file:
+    json.dump(users, json_file,ensure_ascii=False)
+
+