# Delete contact

> DELETE /contacts/:id — remove a contact by id or email.

`DELETE /contacts/:id`

Remove a contact. The `:id` segment accepts either the contact `id` or its `email`. An id is exact; when addressing by **email**, append `?domain=` to say which of your sending domains the contact lives on.

**Path parameters**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | Yes | The contact’s `id` *or* its `email` — either value is accepted in this path segment. |

**Query parameters**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `domain` | string | No | The sending domain the contact belongs to. Needed only when addressing by email; an id is exact. |

**Node.js**

```js
import { MailBlastr } from 'mailblastr';

const mb = new MailBlastr('mb_xxxxxxxxx');

const { data, error } = await mb.contacts.remove({ id: '479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6' });
console.log({ data, error });
```

**Ruby**

```ruby
require "mailblastr"

Mailblastr.api_key = "mb_xxxxxxxxx"

Mailblastr::Contacts.delete({
  "id": "479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6"
})
```

**PHP**

```php
$mailblastr = Mailblastr::client('mb_xxxxxxxxx');

$mailblastr->contacts->remove([
  'id' => "479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6"
]);
```

**Python**

```python
import mailblastr

mailblastr.api_key = "mb_xxxxxxxxx"

mailblastr.Contacts.remove({
  "id": "479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6"
})
```

**Go**

```go
package main

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

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://api.mailblastr.com/contacts/479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6", nil)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    out, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(out))
}
```

**Rust**

```rust
use reqwest::Client;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let res = Client::new()
        .delete("https://api.mailblastr.com/contacts/479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6")
        .header("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
        .send()
        .await?;
    println!("{}", res.text().await?);
    Ok(())
}
```

**Java**

```java
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.mailblastr.com/contacts/479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
    .method("DELETE", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
```

**.NET**

```csharp
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;

var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.mailblastr.com/contacts/479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6");
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx");
var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
```

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.mailblastr.com/contacts/479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx'
```

**CLI**

```bash
mailblastr contacts delete 479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6
```

**Response (200)**

```json
{
  "object": "contact",
  "contact": "479e3145-dd0e-4f64-bf48-1d4b6d4cd8f6",
  "deleted": true
}
```

## Audience-scoped variant

The nested route `DELETE /audiences/:audience_id/contacts/:id` still works and scopes the delete to one audience:

**Node.js**

```js
import { MailBlastr } from 'mailblastr';

const mb = new MailBlastr('mb_xxxxxxxxx');

const { data, error } = await mb.contacts.remove({ audienceId: 'AUDIENCE_ID', id: 'steve@example.com' });
console.log({ data, error });
```

**Ruby**

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
req = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri)
req['Authorization'] = 'Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx'
res = http.request(req)
puts res.body
```

**PHP**

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'DELETE',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx',
    ],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
```

**Python**

```python
import requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx"},
)
print(res.json())
```

**Go**

```go
package main

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

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com", nil)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    out, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(out))
}
```

**Rust**

```rust
use reqwest::Client;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let res = Client::new()
        .delete("https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com")
        .header("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
        .send()
        .await?;
    println!("{}", res.text().await?);
    Ok(())
}
```

**Java**

```java
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx")
    .method("DELETE", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
```

**.NET**

```csharp
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;

var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com");
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx");
var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
```

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.mailblastr.com/audiences/AUDIENCE_ID/contacts/steve@example.com' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mb_xxxxxxxxx'
```

An unknown contact (or audience) returns `404 not_found`. See [Errors](https://www.mailblastr.com/docs/api/errors).