---
title: "Delete message"
method: DELETE
path: "/messages"
tags: ["messages"]
---

# Delete message

`DELETE /messages`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://botapi.tamtam.chat`
- URL: `https://botapi.tamtam.chat/messages`
- Auth: API key in query parameter `access_token`

Deletes message in a dialog or in a chat if bot has permission to delete messages.

## Query parameters

- `message_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Success or not result

- SimpleQueryResult: Simple response to request
  - `success` boolean, required: `true` if request was successful. `false` otherwise
  - `message` string: Explanatory message if the result is not successful

## Other responses

- `401`: Authorization Error. No `access_token` provided or token is invalid
- `403`: Access error. You don't have permissions to access this resource
- `500`: Internal Server Error

## Changes

- **2019-09-09** `844033ee1672`: 1 breaking, 1 info
  - for the `query` request parameter `message_id`, the minLength was increased from `0` to `1`
  - removed the pattern `mid\.[a-z0-9]{32}` from the `query` request parameter `message_id`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/tamtam/apis/tamtam-bot-api/changes/messages/delete.md)

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