PATCH

/v3.1/businesses/delete

Delete the specific process from the server.

Only completed processes can be deleted. All of the process results and information will be deleted.

The delete is performed in the background, the deletion process can take few minutes.

You need to login with a user and api key in order to access this method.

Add this HTTP header to your request:

Authorization: Bearer <Your-Login-Token>

Not sure how to generate your login token? Read here .

Request

Body Parameters

Name

Description

scansREQUIRED

The list of scans to delete

Object array

Example: [ {"id": "Your-scan-id-1"}, {"id": "Your-scan-id-2"} ]

Maximum length: 10,000 scans

purge

Delete all traces of the scan from Copyleaks server, including from internal database. A purged process will not be available as a result for future scans.

Boolean

Default value:false

completionWebhook

Allows you to register to a webhook that will be fired once the removal has been completed.

Make sure that your endpoint is listening to a POST method (no body parameters were supplied).

string (uri)

Example:https://yoursite.com/webhook/deleted

Request Example

RAW

cURL

Python

Node.js

PHP

PATCH

https://api.copyleaks.com/v3.1/businesses/delete

Headers

Body

scans:

id: "Your-scan-id-1"

id: "Your-scan-id-2"

purge: false

Response

Codes

Status Code

Description

Example

202

The request was placed for removal.

Note that this process is asynchronous. This means that the actual removal will take place once one of our servers will be free. In order to get notified after the command execution, register to webhook notification ( completionWebhook ).

400

Bad request.

{
  "scans": [
    "The scans is required."
  ]
}

401

Unauthorized

Authorization has been denied for this request.

Older versions

Delete V3

Other resources:

Exponential Backoff - Algorithm that helps applications define a retry strategy for consuming a network service.

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