---
title: "Report a room as inappropriate."
method: POST
path: "/_matrix/client/v3/rooms/{roomId}/report"
tags: ["Reporting content"]
---

# Report a room as inappropriate.

`POST /_matrix/client/v3/rooms/{roomId}/report`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://matrix.org`
- URL: `https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/v3/rooms/{roomId}/report`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in query parameter `access_token`
  - HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/matrix/apis/matrix-client-server-api/docs/_matrix/client/v3/rooms/:roomId/report/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Reports a room as inappropriate to the server, which may then notify
the appropriate people. How such information is delivered is left up to
implementations. The caller is not required to be joined to the room to
report it.

Clients could infer whether a reported room exists based on the 404 response.
Homeservers that wish to conceal this information MAY return 200 responses
regardless of the existence of the reported room.

Furthermore, it might be possible for clients to deduce whether a reported
room exists by timing the response. This is because only a report for an
existing room will require the homeserver to do further processing. To
combat this, homeservers MAY add a random delay when generating a response.

## Path parameters

- `roomId` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `reason` string, required: The reason the room is being reported. May be blank.

## Response `200`

The room has been reported successfully.

- object

## Other responses

- `404`: The room was not found on the homeserver.
- `429`: This request was rate-limited.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/matrix/apis/matrix-client-server-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/matrix/apis/matrix-client-server-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/matrix/apis/matrix-client-server-api/revisions/c7fe4072c681?raw)