---
title: "Delete a task by ref"
method: DELETE
path: "/tasks/{id}"
tags: ["Tasks"]
---

# Delete a task by ref

`DELETE /tasks/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.fareeqy.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://app.fareeqy.com/api/v1/tasks/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Permanent. Requires operation `tasks:destructive`.

## Response `200`

Deletion result.

- DeletedTask
  - `data` object
    - `deleted` true, required
    - `task` object
      - `title` string
      - `id` string: The task ref.

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing or invalid API key.
- `403`: Two different refusals share this status, and a client must tell them apart by `error.code`. `forbidden` means the key's scope or allowlist does not permit this operation, or Pundit denied the action. `plan_upgrade_required` means the company's plan carries no API access at all, so no key on it can ever succeed and there is nothing to retry.
- `404`: Resource not found or not accessible — also returned for EVERY endpoint when the company's `rest_api` feature flag is disabled (the surface is hidden). Lookups drill through the URL hierarchy, so another company's record is a 404 and never a leak. A path that matches no route at all answers 404 with the distinct code `unknown_endpoint` and echoes the path back, so a mistyped or half-built URL is told apart from a record that is missing or out of reach.
- `429`: Either the company's daily API allowance is spent (`rate_limit_exceeded`), or the per-key / per-IP burst throttle of 300 requests per minute fired. Both come back after a wait, so `Retry-After` is honest here. **The two bodies are not the same shape.** The daily-quota refusal uses the standard error envelope. The burst throttle is served by Rack::Attack ahead of the application, so its body is a flat `{"error": "<string>"}` with no `code`. A client that reads `error.code` has to tolerate `error` being a plain string.

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