API Reference

Accounts

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Delete a specific account

client.Accounts.Delete(ctx, body) (*AccountDeleteResponse, error)

DELETE/accounts/{account_id}

Delete a specific account (only available for tenant admins at this time). This is a permanent operation that will delete any zones or other resources under the account

Security

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Account Settings Write

ParametersExpand Collapse

body AccountDeleteParams

AccountID param.Field[string]

The account ID of the account to be deleted

ReturnsExpand Collapse

type AccountDeleteResponse struct{…}

ID string

Identifier

maxLength32

minLength32

Delete a specific account

Go

HTTP

TypeScript

Python

Go

Terraform

package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"

  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/accounts"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/option"
)

func main() {
  client := cloudflare.NewClient(
    option.WithAPIKey("144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194"),
    option.WithAPIEmail("user@example.com"),
  )
  account, err := client.Accounts.Delete(context.TODO(), accounts.AccountDeleteParams{
    AccountID: cloudflare.F("account_id"),
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err.Error())
  }
  fmt.Printf("%+v\n", account.ID)
}

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"
  }
}

Returns Examples

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"
  }
}