Events: delete

Deletes an event. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
`calendarId`	`string`	Calendar identifier. To retrieve calendar IDs call the calendarList.list method. If you want to access the primary calendar of the currently logged in user, use the "`primary`" keyword.
`eventId`	`string`	Event identifier.
Optional query parameters
`sendNotifications`	`boolean`	Deprecated. Please use sendUpdates instead. Whether to send notifications about the deletion of the event. Note that some emails might still be sent even if you set the value to `false`. The default is `false`.
`sendUpdates`	`string`	Guests who should receive notifications about the deletion of the event. Acceptable values are: "`all`": Notifications are sent to all guests. "`externalOnly`": Notifications are sent to non-Google Calendar guests only. "`none`": No notifications are sent. For calendar migration tasks, consider using the Events.import method instead.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events`

For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an empty response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

import com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar;

// ...

// Initialize Calendar service with valid OAuth credentials
Calendar service = new Calendar.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credentials)
    .setApplicationName("applicationName").build();

// Delete an event
service.events().delete('primary', "eventId").execute();

Python

Uses the Python client library.

service.events().delete(calendarId='primary', eventId='eventId').execute()

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

$service->events->delete('primary', 'eventId');

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

client.delete_event('primary', 'eventId')

Try it!

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