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is there a way to bulk delete external contacts

Tags: rest api

Oct 19, 2021 at 3:25pm • 1 replies • 0 likes

washingon

I want to bulk delete contacts. I am using DELETEhttps://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com/restapi/v1.0/account/accountId/extension/extensionId/address-book/contact/contactId successfully but would like to bulk delete.

1 Answer

Anirban answered on Oct 19, 2021 at 4:17pm

Yes you can delete multiple contacts using comma after each contact id

Ref: https://developers.ringcentral.com/api-reference/External-Contacts/deleteContact

Example

/restapi/v1.0/account/accountId/extension/extensionId/address-book/contact/contactId1, contactid2,…

washingon on Oct 19, 2021 at 6:59pm • 0 likes

Perfect. that worked!

I needed to encode the comma in the URI to %2c to get it to work and found that I needed to limit the # of contacts in a single delete to 25 or so.

thanks you!

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