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DELETE
/
contacts
/
{id}
Delete a contact by ID
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
import requests

url = "https://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}"

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

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

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}', 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://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}",
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://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}"

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://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.privy.com/v1/contacts/{id}")

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
{
  "data": {
    "id": "cus_a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8",
    "first_name": "Jane",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "email": "jane@example.com",
    "email_consent": "subscribed",
    "phone_number": "+15551234567",
    "sms_consent": "subscribed",
    "tags": [
      "vip",
      "repeat-buyer"
    ],
    "custom_fields": {
      "loyalty_tier": "gold",
      "referral_code": "JANE2024"
    },
    "created_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-03-20T14:22:00Z"
  }
}
{
"error": {
"code": "unauthorized",
"message": "Bearer token is missing or invalid"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": "insufficient_scope",
"message": "Token does not have the required scope"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": "not_found",
"message": "Contact not found"
}
}
{
"error": {
"code": "rate_limited",
"message": "Rate limit exceeded"
}
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Send either an API token or an OAuth access token as Authorization: Bearer <token>. See the Authentication page for details.

Path Parameters

id
string
required

The contact's unique identifier (returned as id in contact responses).

Response

Contact deleted successfully.

data
object