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is there a way to bulk delete external contacts

  • October 19, 2021
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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.

Best answer by Anirban2396911020

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,…

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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,…


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  • October 20, 2021

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!