API Reference

Workers

Beta

Workers

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Delete Worker

client.workers.beta.workers.delete(stringworkerID, WorkerDeleteParams { account_id, force } params, RequestOptionsoptions?): WorkerDeleteResponse { errors, messages, success }

DELETE/accounts/{account_id}/workers/workers/{worker_id}

Delete a Worker and all its associated resources (versions, deployments, etc.).

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

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)

Workers Scripts Write

ParametersExpand Collapse

workerID: string

Identifier for the Worker, which can be ID or name.

params: WorkerDeleteParams { account_id, force }

account_id: string

Path param: Identifier.

maxLength32

force?: boolean

Query param: If true, delete the Worker even when other Workers still reference it. Service bindings in those Workers may be left broken. Durable Object namespaces implemented by the deleted Worker are deleted even if other Workers reference them.

ReturnsExpand Collapse

WorkerDeleteResponse { errors, messages, success }

errors: Array<Error>

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url?: string

source?: Source { pointer }

pointer?: string

messages: Array<Message>

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url?: string

source?: Source { pointer }

pointer?: string

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

Delete Worker

TypeScript

HTTP

TypeScript

Python

Go

Terraform

import Cloudflare from 'cloudflare';

const client = new Cloudflare({
  apiToken: process.env['CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const worker = await client.workers.beta.workers.delete('worker_id', {
  account_id: '023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353',
});

console.log(worker.errors);

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
}

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
}