Delete Account - DELETE

To delete an account and all its associated data, you need to make a DELETE request to the endpoint

DELETE https://api.palenca.com/v1/accounts/:account_id

This request deletes all the personal and employment information Palenca retrieved for this account.

Warning

After calling this endpoint, the account and its data will be deleted from our databases. This cannot be undone under any circumstance.

JavaScript

const axios = require('axios')

const config = {
  method: 'delete',
  url: 'https://api.palenca.com/v1/accounts/:account_id',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'private_api_key',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  }
};

(() => {
  try {
  const { data } = await axios(config)
  console.info(JSON.stringify(response.data))
  } catch (error) {
      console.error(error)
  }
})()

Python

import requests

url = 'https://api.palenca.com/v1/accounts/:account_id'

headers = {
  'x-api-key': 'private_api_key',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request('DELETE', url, headers=headers)

curl

curl --location --request DELETE 'https://api.palenca.com/v1/accounts/:account_id' \
--header 'X-API-Key: private_api_key'

Returns a JSON structured like this:

{
    "success": true,
    "error": null,
    "data": {
        "user_id": "1efb1ac1-2085-437d-aa8f-a8948cfdab80",
        "account_id": "489db468-4937-4ab8-b6cc-47f420e88019"
    }
}

Query params

Parameter	Description	Type	Required	Example
account_id	The ID of the account to be deleted	uuid	True	91ffa55c-c33e-4b25-9213-5b5008e6d2f9