Delete a topic

DELETE /api/v1/topics/{topicId} Deletes a topic. Only one that nothing carries can go.

Deleting a topic throws away the refusals people expressed. Everyone who declined it starts receiving that theme again, and there is no undo. Read optOutCount on Get a topic before you call this.

Authorization

Role in the organization	This endpoint
`OWNER`	Allowed
`ADMIN`	Allowed
`MEMBER`	Refused — `403`

A key carries the role its creator holds in this organization — never a role on AgentsMail itself. See API keys.

Path parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`topicId`	string	Required. The topic to delete

Example

bash

curl -X DELETE -H "x-api-key: $AGENTMAIL_API_KEY" \
  "https://www.agentsmail.io/api/v1/topics/$TOPIC_ID"

Response

200 OK — the id of what was removed.
401 Unauthorized — missing or invalid key, or its owner left the organization.
403 Forbidden — the key's owner is a member of the organization, not an admin.
404 Not Found — no such topic, or it belongs to another organization. The API never confirms that an id exists to a caller who has no right to it.
409 Conflict — a campaign or a sequence still carries the topic. The message names them. Retrying will not help: detach them first, or keep the topic.
429 Too Many Requests — over 120 requests in a minute for this key.

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`success`	boolean	Indicates if the operation was successful
`data.id`	string	Identifier of what was removed

Example response

json

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "7c2e4b19"
  }
}

Agent recipe

Detach, then delete — and read the 409 message rather than retrying:

const usage = (await get(`/api/v1/topics/${topicId}`)).data

for (const campaign of usage.campaigns) {
  await patch(`/api/v1/campaigns/${campaign.id}`, {topicId: null})
}

const response = await del(`/api/v1/topics/${topicId}`)
if (response.status === 409) {
  // Something was attached in the meantime — the error names it
}

A campaign that has already gone out cannot be edited, so its topic cannot be detached: that topic stays, and that is deliberate — what was sent stays traceable.

Notes

The refusal is recomputed at deletion time, not taken from what you last read. A campaign created between your two calls blocks the deletion.
Detaching a topic from a published sequence whose steps carry {{topicOptOutUrl}} is itself refused. Open a draft, remove the shortcode, publish — or keep the topic.