Delete a user.

Delete a user with user ID.

DELETE /api/users/{userId}

Delete a user.

cURL

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{tenant}/api/users/{userId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "Message": "User deleted",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "OK"
}

{
  "Message": "Could not delete the user.",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "Error"
}

{
  "Message": "Not authorised",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "Error"
}

{
  "Message": "access denied: You do not have permission to access  /api/users/{userId}",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "Error"
}

{
  "Message": "Could not retrieve user detail.",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "Error"
}

{
  "Message": "Attempted unauthorised access.",
  "Meta": null,
  "Status": "Error"
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

The Tyk Dashboard API Access Credentials

Path Parameters

userId · string · required

User ID of the user to delete.

Response

200

application/json

OK

ID · string

Message · string

Meta · any

Status · string