Delete Users and Companies
Userpilot supports data deletion to comply with right to be forgotten under (GDPR), under this right a European user can request to delete all his data. Userpilot supports this right not only for European users, but for all users. You can use Deletion APIs to schedule a job to delete the user data.
These APIs can be called in any language that supports HTTP requests, you only need to specify your write_token
and a list of users or companies ids whose data should be deleted.
Authorization
Userpilot API uses API tokens to authenticate requests. You can view your write key in the application settings here.
Your API write key carries many privileges, so be sure to keep them secure! Do not share your secret API keys in publicly accessible areas.
Authentication to the API is performed via HTTP custom auth token, use -H 'Authorization: token <your write key here>'
to add your write token.
Note: All API requests must be made over HTTPS.
Version
You have to send the api version in Headers.
-H 'X-API-Version: 2020-09-22'
A note about base url
for most customers the API base url is https://api.userpilot.io
as the examples show.
However, if you are on an enterprise plan which uses a custom endpoint, refer to the Installation page in Settings to retrieve your base url.
Delete users API
Send a Delete request to delete users:
curl -X DELETE https://api.userpilot.io/v1/users \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Token write_token' \ -H 'X-API-Version: 2020-09-22' \ -d '{"users": ["user_id", "user_id2",... // List of users IDs]}'
Delete companies API
Send a Delete request to delete companies:
curl -X DELETE https://api.userpilot.io/v1/companies \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Token write_token' \ -H 'X-API-Version: 2020-09-22' \ -d '{"companies": ["company_id", "company_id2",.... // List of companies IDs]}'
Response
Delete APIs will trigger a background job to delete users or companies, a success request will return the job id that corresponds to your delete request.
A success response will have a status of 202 accepted
and the following body:
{ "job": { "id": "job_1huAx0ZQLpb2xOkPN6RdflWs0Ub", "created_at": 1600850845515, "updated_at": 1600850845515, "status": "queued" }, "message": "2 users have been scheduled for deletion" }
View job details
You can follow the status of the job by calling this api, it will return the status of the background job. you need to replace {id}
with the value returned in delete API
curl https://api.userpilot.io/v1/jobs/{id} \ -H 'Authorization: Token write_token' \ -H 'X-API-Version: 2020-09-22'
Response
{ "job": { "id": "job_1huAx0ZQLpb2xOkPN6RdflWs0Ub", "created_at": 1600850845515, "updated_at": 1600850845515, "status": "completed" } }
Note: it may take several minutes until we reflect the changes on Userpilot web app (run.userpilot.io) even though the job status is completed.
Rate limit
Please note that these APIs are limited by 600 requests per minute, you can check the limits on response header. If you exceeded the limit we'll return 429 too many requests
error
x-ratelimit-limit: 600, x-ratelimit-remaining: 599, x-ratelimit-reset: 1600854660000