Posts

delete a single post

DELETE

https://discourse.example.com/posts/{id}.json

curl -X DELETE 'https://discourse.example.com/posts/0.json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "force_destroy": true
}'

const body = `{
  "force_destroy": true
}`;

const response = await fetch('https://discourse.example.com/posts/0.json', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body,
});

const data = await response.text();

import requests

body = '''{
  "force_destroy": true
}'''

response = requests.delete(
    'https://discourse.example.com/posts/0.json',
    data=body.encode('utf-8'),
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
)
print(response.text)

Request Body

{
  "force_destroy": true
}

Body

application/json

force_destroyboolean

The SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete needs to be enabled first before this param can be used. Also this endpoint needs to be called first without force_destroy and then followed up with a second call 5 minutes later with force_destroy to permanently delete.

Example

true

Parameters

idintegerrequiredpath

Response

200OK

success response

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