This API allows a contact to be deleted by passing the Contact Sid in the request.
https://<your_api_key>:<your_api_token><subdomain>/v2/accounts/<your_sid>/contacts/<contactSid>
This API supports JSON response only.
<your_api_key>
and <your_api_token>
with the API key and token created by you.<your_sid>
with your “Account sid”<subdomain>
with the region of your account
<your_api_key>
, <your_api_token>
and <your_sid>
are available in the API settings page of your Exotel Dashboard
curl -X DELETE 'https://<your_api_key>:<your_api_token>@<subdomain>/v2/accounts/<account_sid>/contacts/<contact_sid>
var unirest = require('unirest'); var unirest = require('unirest'); var accountSid = "XXXXXXXXX"; var accountToken = "YYYYYYYYY"; var authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ"; var encoding = Buffer.from(authKey + ':' + accountToken).toString('base64'); var req = unirest('DELETE', 'https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/'+accountSid+'/contacts/<contact_sid>') .headers({ Authorization: 'Basic ' + encoding }) .end(function (res) { if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); console.log(res.raw_body); });
<?php $curl = curl_init(); $accountSid = "XXXXXXXXXX"; $accountToken = "YYYYYYYYYY"; $authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ"; $encoding = base64_encode($authKey .":". $accountToken); curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/'+ $accountSid+'/contacts/<Ccontact_id>', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'DELETE', CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( "Authorization: Basic ".$encoding ), )); $response = curl_exec($curl); curl_close($curl); echo $response;
import requests import base64 import json accountSid = "XXXXXXXXX" authToken = "YYYYYYYYY" authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ" encoding = base64.b64encode(authKey + ":" + authToken) url = "https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/"+ accountSid+"/contacts/<contact_id>" payload={} headers = { 'Authorization': "Basic " + encoding } response = requests.request("DELETE", url, headers=headers, data=payload) print(response.text)
package main import ( b64 "encoding/base64" "fmt" "io/ioutil" "net/http" ) func main() { // Please provide accountSid, authToken from your Exotel account accountSid := "XXXXXXXXX" authToken := "YYYYYYYY" authKey := "ZZZZZZZZZZ" // Encoding the accountSid and authToken, used in Authorization header encoding := b64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(authKey + ":" + authToken)) url := "https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/" + accountSid + "/contacts/<contact_sid>" method := "DELETE" client := &http.Client{} req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil) req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic "+encoding) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } res, err := client.Do(req) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } defer res.Body.Close() body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } fmt.Println(string(body)) }
{ "request_id": "e623a09f108d4fe0b5c442024f3d30bb", "method": "DELETE", "http_code": 200, "response": { "code": 200, "error_data": null, "status": "success", "data": { "sid": "4440b6e1a85f489b87d76d8779956caf", "date_created": "2021-05-23T08:21:30Z", "date_updated": "2021-05-23T08:21:30Z", "account_sid": "exotel8u3", "number": "+919101234511", "first_name": "captain", "last_name": "exotel", "company_name": "Exotel", "email": "captain@email.com", "tag": "API", "custom_field": { "key": { "key1": "values1" } }, "uri": "/v2/accounts/exotel8u3/contacts/4440b6e1a85f489b87d76d8779956caf" } } }