Delete subscriber - ExpertSender Help Center

A single subscriber can be deleted from all lists or single, specific list, using HTTP DELETE method. It is possible to remove subscriber from all channels or a single channel.

Request data format

By email address

Request URL parameters:

Parameter	Type	Notes
apiKey	string	Your API key, required for authentication. Required.
email	string	Email. Required as URL parameter. Should be URL-encoded.
listId	int	List identifier. Optional. If specified, subscribers will be removed from single list. If not specified, subscribers will be removed from all lists.
channel	string	Specifies a channel that subscriber should be deleted from. Possible values: All Email SmsMms Optional. Default value – Email
addToBlacklist	boolean	If set to true, in addition to deleting subscriber from list(s), he will also be put on local blacklist.*

* If set to true:

listId parameter is ignored (subscriber will always be deleted from all lists)
If subscriber was deleted from Email lists, his email will be added to local email blacklist
If subscriber was deleted from Sms lists, his phone will be added to local phone blacklist
Blacklisting source will be set to „Api”

Example URLs to delete subscriber using email address:

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&email=johndoe@domain.com 

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&email=johndoe@domain.com&listId=1

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&email=johndoe@domain.com&channel=SmsMms

Please note that subscriber’s email is a parameter, NOT a part of the path.

By subscriber ID

Request URL parameters:

Parameter	Type	Notes
apiKey	string	Your API key, required for authentication. Required.
ID	int	Subscriber ID. Required as a part of address (not parameter). See example below.
listId	int	List identifier. Optional. If specified, subscribers will be removed from single list. If not specified, subscribers will be removed from all lists.
channel	string	Specifies a channel that subscriber should be deleted from. Possible values: All Email SmsMms Optional. Default value – All
addToBlacklist	boolean	If set to true, in addition to deleting subscriber from list(s), he will also be put on local blacklist.*

* If set to true:

listId parameter is ignored (subscriber will always be deleted from all lists)
If subscriber was deleted from Email lists, his email will be added to local email blacklist
If subscriber was deleted from Sms lists, his phone will be added to local phone blacklist
Blacklisting source will be set to „Api”

Example URLs to delete subscriber using Subscriber ID:

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers/123?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers/123?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&listId=1

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers/123?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&listId=1&channel=Email

Please note that subscriber’s ID is a part of URL path, NOT a parameter!

By phone number

Request URL parameters:

Parameter	Type	Notes
apiKey	string	Your API key, required for authentication. Required.
phone	string	Subscriber’s phone number. Required as URL parameter. Should be URL-encoded.
listId	int	List identifier. Optional. If specified, subscribers will be removed from single list. If not specified, subscribers will be removed from all lists.
channel	string	Specifies a channel that subscriber should be deleted from. Possible values: All Email SmsMms Optional. Default value – SmsMms
addToBlacklist	boolean	If set to true, in addition to deleting subscriber from list(s), he will also be put on local blacklist.*

* If set to true:

listId parameter is ignored (subscriber will always be deleted from all lists)
If subscriber was deleted from Email lists, his email will be added to local email blacklist
If subscriber was deleted from Sms lists, his phone will be added to local phone blacklist
Blacklisting source will be set to „Api”

Example URLs to delete subscriber using phone numbers:

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&phone=48501223344 

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&phone=48501223344&listId=1

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&phone=48501223344&channel=All

Please note that subscriber’s phone is a parameter, NOT a part of the path.

By custom subscriber ID

Request URL parameters:

Parameter	Type	Notes
apiKey	string	Your API key, required for authentication. Required.
customSubscriberId	string	Subscriber’s custom ID. Required as URL parameter. Should be URL-encoded.
listId	int	List identifier. Optional. If specified, subscribers will be removed from single list. If not specified, subscribers will be removed from all lists.
channel	string	Specifies a channel that subscriber should be deleted from. Possible values: All Email SmsMms Custom Optional. Default value – All
addToBlacklist	boolean	If set to true, in addition to deleting subscriber from list(s), he will also be put on local blacklist.*

* If set to true:

listId parameter is ignored (subscriber will always be deleted from all lists)
If subscriber was deleted from Email lists, his email will be added to local email blacklist
If subscriber was deleted from Sms lists, his phone will be added to local phone blacklist
Blacklisting source will be set to „Api”

Example URLs to delete subscriber using custom subscriber ID:

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&customSubscriberId=sub_123 

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&customSubscriberId=sub_123&listId=1

https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&customSubscriberId=sub_123&channel=Email

Please note that subscriber’s custom ID is a parameter, NOT a part of the path.

Examples

Request:

DELETE https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/Subscribers?apiKey=test_api_key1&email=john%40yahoo.com HTTP/1.1 
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate 
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 
Host: api.esv2.com

OK response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content 
Cache-Control: private 
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=2ahrqf45zbbxc3njap11i155; path=/; HttpOnly 
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0 
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET 
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2017 15:56:14 GMT

Error response:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 
Cache-Control: private 
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=uq4wknygxzgtyojyaxkl4myn; path=/; HttpOnly 
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0 
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET 
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2017 16:11:18 GMT 
Content-Length: 264  

<ApiResponse xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <ErrorMessage>
     <Code>404</Code>
     <Message>Subscriber with email - john@yahoo.com  - not found.</Message>
   </ErrorMessage>
</ApiResponse>

Request:

DELETE http://api.servicestaging.expertsender?apiKey=myapikey&id=11111&addToBlacklist=true

OK response:

Subscriber 11111 is deleted from all lists of all types, his email and phone are blacklisted

Request:

DELETE http://api.servicestaging.expertsender?apiKey=myapikey&email=foo@bar.com&addToBlacklist=true

OK response:

Subscriber foo@bar.com is deleted from all Email lists, his email is blacklisted

Request:

DELETE http://api.servicestaging.expertsender?apiKey=myapikey&email=foo@bar.com&channel=SmsMms&addToBlacklist=true

OK response:

Subscriber foo@bar.com is deleted from all Sms lists, his phone is blacklisted (because channel=SmsMms)