---
title: "Delete cached profiles, pages, and contact details"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/privacy/cache"
tags: ["Privacy"]
---

# Delete cached profiles, pages, and contact details

`DELETE /v1/privacy/cache`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.recruitmcp.com`
- URL: `https://api.recruitmcp.com/v1/privacy/cache`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL `https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/authorize`, token URL `https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/token`, scopes: `privacy:write`)

Deletes every cached profile, cached search page, and stored contact detail in this workspace. It cannot be undone, and the next search, fetch, or contact lookup pays again. `?dry_run=true` returns what would be deleted and deletes nothing. Executing needs `?confirm_delete=true`; without it the call is 400 confirmation_required and nothing is deleted.

Scope: `privacy:write`.

## Query parameters

- `dry_run` boolean
- `confirm_delete` boolean

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string
- `RecruitMCP-Version` '2026-10-13'
- `RecruitMCP-Customer` string

## Response `200`

Dry run: what would be deleted.

- CacheDeletionPreview
  - `object` string, required: cache_deletion
  - `dry_run` boolean, required
  - `deleted` boolean, required: Always false on a dry run.
  - `would_delete` string[], required
  - `effect` string
  - `execute` string: The call that deletes.
  - `cost` Cost, required
    - `credits` integer, required: Credits charged by this call. Whole credits. 0 on an idempotent replay, where the body also has replayed: true and the header Idempotent-Replayed: true.
    - `cached_items` integer: Items read from cache. On a replay, the value of the first response.
    - `live_items` integer: Items fetched live by this call. 0 on a replay.
    - `upstream_calls` integer: Index calls made by this call. 0 on a replay.

## Other responses

- `204`: Deleted.
- `400`: `invalid_request` (do not retry): A field is missing or has a value this endpoint does not accept. `unsupported_version` (do not retry): RecruitMCP-Version is not a supported version.
- `401`: `unauthorized` (do not retry): Missing bearer API key.
- `403`: `forbidden` (do not retry): This customer is disabled. `insufficient_scope` (do not retry): This key does not include the scope this endpoint requires.
- `429`: `rate_limited` (retry): Per-key rate limit exceeded.

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `ad27b35513a6`: 4 warning
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `429`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/recruitmcp/apis/recruitmcp-api/changes/v1/privacy/cache/delete.md)

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