Remove an existing contact by ID or email

DELETE/contacts/{id}Remove an existing contact by ID or email

Parameters

idstringpathrequired

The Contact ID or email address.

Responses

objectRemoveContactResponseSuccess

deletedboolean

Indicates whether the contact was successfully deleted.

idstring

Unique identifier for the removed contact.

objectstring

Type of the response object.

Example response

{
  "deleted": true,
  "id": "520784e2-887d-4c25-b53c-4ad46ad38100",
  "object": "contact"
}

Examples

idrequiredpath parameter

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.resend.com/contacts/string'

const response = await fetch('https://api.resend.com/contacts/string', { method: 'DELETE' });
const data = await response.json();

const response = await fetch('https://api.resend.com/contacts/string', { method: 'DELETE' });
console.log(await response.json());

import requests

response = requests.request("DELETE", "https://api.resend.com/contacts/string")
print(response.json())

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "DELETE", "https://api.resend.com/contacts/string", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

<?php
$request = curl_init("https://api.resend.com/contacts/string");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.resend.com/contacts/string"))
    .method("DELETE", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

require 'net/http'

uri = URI("https://api.resend.com/contacts/string")
request = Net::HTTPGenericRequest.new("DELETE", false, true, uri)
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.resend.com/contacts/string");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);

{
  "deleted": true,
  "id": "520784e2-887d-4c25-b53c-4ad46ad38100",
  "object": "contact"
}

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