Delete activities programmatically
To delete an existing activity, use the HTTP DELETE method.Deleted activities are moved to the trash collection and can be restored. See Restore activities for more details.
See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Table 1. Atom API request details
Method Resource URI Input and output representations DELETE activity Value of the href attribute of <link> element with the rel="edit" attribute in user's overview feed. None
Input
None
Output
NoneReturned HTTP headers
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Indicates activity was successfully deleted (and no content is returned).
- HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden: Authorization failed.
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Example
Input
DELETE /activities/entries HTTP/1.1 Host: activities.example.org Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=utf-8
Parent topic
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Activity content
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