Delete Documents API Definition

The Delete Documents API lets you delete a document from a corpus. To verify that the document no longer exists in the corpus, use the List Documents endpoint.

Delete Document Request and Response

To delete a document, send a DELETE request to /v2/corpora/:corpus_key/documents/{document_id}, where corpus_key is the unique identifier for the corpus and {document_id} is the ID of the document you want to delete. The document_id is a string that uniquely identifies the document within the corpus. The document_id must be percent encoded.

The reply on successful deletion is {}.

REST 2.0 URL

Delete Documents Endpoint Address

Vectara exposes a REST endpoint at the following URL to delete content from a corpus:

https://api.vectara.io/v2/corpora/:corpus_key/documents/:document_id

The API Reference shows the full Delete Documents REST definition.