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Delete a Contact Identifier

Operation overview

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DELETE/v3/marketing/contacts/{contact_id}/identifiers

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (The Twilio SendGrid v3 API)

This endpoint can be used to delete one identifier from a contact.

Deletion jobs are processed asynchronously.

Note this is different from deleting a contact. If the contact has only one identifier, the asynchronous request will fail. All contacts are required to have at least one identifier.

The request body field identifier_type must have a valid value of "EMAIL", "PHONENUMBERID", "EXTERNALID", or "ANONYMOUSID".

Operation details

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Authentication

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Headers

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Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstringrequired
Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

Path parameters

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Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
contact_idstringrequired

Must be set to the contact_id of the contact you want to remove the identifier from.

Request body

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Encoding type:application/json
SchemaExample
Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
identifier_typeenum<string>required

The type of identifier you are removing from the contact.

Possible values:
EMAILPHONENUMBERIDEXTERNALIDANONYMOUSID
identifier_valuestringrequired

The value of the identifier you want to remove from the contact.

Responses

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202400401403404500

Indicates that the deletion is queued for processing. Check the job status with the Import Contacts Status endpoint.

Schema
Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
job_idobject

The deletion job ID.

Delete a Contact IdentifierLink to code sample: Delete a Contact Identifier
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const client = require('@sendgrid/client');

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client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);

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const contact_id = "ZGkrHSypTsudrGkmdpJJ";

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const data = {

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  "identifier_type": "PHONENUMBERID",

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  "identifier_value": "15555555555"

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};

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const request = {

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  url: `/v3/marketing/contacts/${contact_id}/identifiers`,

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  method: 'DELETE',

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  body: data

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}

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client.request(request)

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  .then(([response, body]) => {

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    console.log(response.statusCode);

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    console.log(response.body);

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  })

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  .catch(error => {

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    console.error(error);

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  });