# Delete

To delete an existing room you need to execute a **DELETE** request against the **/rooms/:id** endpoint.

The **id** uniquely identifies the room and you can find it in the [create room](/reference/rest-api/rooms/create.md#response-200-ok) response.

{% hint style="danger" %}
This is a destructive operation which cannot be undone. If the deleted room is in-use -> all people will be kicked out of it and the video conference will immediately end.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="danger" %}
By default related room resources are not deleted - e.g. if you have recordings, transcripts, chat for the room, they won't be deleted when deleting the room. If you insist on hard deleting all related room resources too, then[ execute](/reference/rest-api/rooms/delete/all-resources.md) a separate **DELETE** request to the **/rooms/:id/resources** endpoint. Other option is to set the "**delete\_resources**" param to **true** in the optional body of the DELETE **/rooms/:id/** request if your HTTP client supports bodies on DELETE requests.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
You can set the **expires\_at** room property which will automatically delete the room after the specified date and time is reached. For example - "**expires\_at**": "2024-09-05 12:30:00"
{% endhint %}

#### Request

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.digitalsamba.com/api/v1/rooms/c39d7c40-7ff7-4faa-b06f-698a639a9523 \
  --user YOUR_TEAM_ID:YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse.BodyHandlers;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.Map;

String TEAM_ID = "YOUR_TEAM_ID";
String DEVELOPER_KEY = "YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY";
String authorizationHeader = "Bearer " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString((TEAM_ID + ":" + DEVELOPER_KEY).getBytes());
//Put your room id or friendly_url (name) here - this value is just an example
String roomId = "c39d7c40-7ff7-4faa-b06f-698a639a9523";

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
  .DELETE()
  .uri(new URI("https://api.digitalsamba.com/api/v1/rooms/" + roomId))
  .header("Authorization", authorizationHeader)
  .build();

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println("Status code: " + response.statusCode());
System.out.println("Body: " + response.body());
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Response (204 -> No Content)**&#x20;

Response is empty because the room was deleted and there is no content to return.


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