---
title: "Delete items from a collection"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/collections/{collection_id}/items"
tags: ["Collections"]
---

# Delete items from a collection

`DELETE /v1/collections/{collection_id}/items`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://ac.cnstrc.com`
- URL: `https://ac.cnstrc.com/v1/collections/{collection_id}/items`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - HTTP bearer

**🔐 This endpoint requires [HTTP authentication](https://docs.constructor.com/reference/main-authentication) (either [Basic](https://docs.constructor.com/reference/main-authentication#basic-authentication) or [Bearer](https://docs.constructor.com/reference/main-authentication#bearer-authentication)).**
For authenticating with Bearer token, required scopes are: `collections(w)`.

Delete items from a collection. If no items are provided, all items in the given collection will be deleted. Invalid items and items that are not part of the given collection will be ignored.

## Path parameters

- `collection_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `key` string, required: The key of the index to use.
- `section` string: The section of the index to use. Defaults to `Products`.
- `c` string: The ID of the client and version that the request is coming from, such as `cio-js-2.90`.

## Request body

- CollectionItemListDeleteBody
  - `items` CollectionItemBase[], required: A list of item ids to delete from the collection. Warning: If no body or an empty body is provided, all items in the collection will be deleted.
    - `id` string, required: The ID of the item, must be unique.
    - `source` string: Arbitrary identifier of the source of the item manually added to the collection.
    - `variation_ids` string[]: List of variation IDs to include in this collection for the item. If not provided, all variations of the item are included.

## Response `200`

OK

- CollectionItemListDeleteResponse
  - `items` CollectionItemResponse[], required
    - `id` string, required: The ID of the item, added to the collection.
    - `source` string: Arbitrary identifier of the source of the item manually added to the collection.
    - `variation_ids` string[]: List of variation IDs to include in this collection for the item. If not provided, all variations of the item are included.
    - `created_at` string, date-time: Collection Item creation date in ISO 8601 format. Present only for manually added items.
    - `updated_at` string, date-time: Collection Item update date in ISO 8601 format. Present only for manually added items.
    - `type` 'manual' | 'dynamic'

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation Error
- `401`: Credentials are not passed or action is forbidden.
- `403`: The supplied token does not have the required permissions.
- `404`: Not Found
- `429`: Rate limit breached

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