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Remove Contacts from a List

API Overview

Lists are static collections of Marketing Campaigns contacts. This API allows you to interact with the list objects themselves. To add contacts to a list, you must use the Contacts API.

You can also manage your lists using the Contacts menu in the Marketing Campaigns UI. For more information about lists and best practices for building them, see "Building your Contact List".

Operation overview

DELETE/v3/marketing/lists/{id}/contacts

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

This endpoint allows you to remove contacts from a given list.

The contacts will not be deleted. Only their list membership will be changed.

Operation details

Authentication

API Key

Headers

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

Authorizationstringrequired

Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

Path parameters

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

idstringrequired

The ID of the list on which you want to perform the operation.

Query string

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

contact_idsstringrequired

Comma separated list of contact IDs that you want to remove from the specified contacts list.

Min length: 1

Responses

202400404

The removal is accepted and processing.

Schema

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

job_idstring

job_id of the async job

Remove Contacts from a List

1const client = require("@sendgrid/client");
2client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
3
4const id = "ZGkrHSypTsudrGkmdpJJ";
5const queryParams = {
6  contact_ids: "GkrHSypTsudrGkmdpJJ",
7};
8
9const request = {
10  url: `/v3/marketing/lists/${id}/contacts`,
11  method: "DELETE",
12  qs: queryParams,
13};
14
15client
16  .request(request)
17  .then(([response, body]) => {
18    console.log(response.statusCode);
19    console.log(response.body);
20  })
21  .catch((error) => {
22    console.error(error);
23  });