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title: Trigger a recipient removal from a share
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# Trigger a recipient removal from a share
DELETE/accounts/{account\_id}/shares/{share\_id}/recipients/{recipient\_id}
Performs a **soft delete**: sets the recipient’s `desired_association_status` to `disassociated`, which signals the background reconciliation workflow (Temporal) to remove the shared resources from the recipient account. The recipient record remains in the database for audit purposes and is still returned by `GET /accounts/{account_id}/shares/{share_id}/recipients` with its updated status.
Resource access is not fully removed until the workflow completes and `current_association_status` transitions to `disassociated`. The recipient record itself is never physically deleted.
##### Security
API Email + API Key
The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.
**Example:**`X-Auth-Email: user@example.com`
The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.
**Example:**`X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194`
##### P ath ParametersExpand Collapse
account\_id: string
Account identifier.
maxLength32
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share\_id: string
Share identifier tag.
maxLength32
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recipient\_id: string
Share Recipient identifier tag.
maxLength32
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errors: array of ResponseInfo { code, message, documentation\_url, source }
code: number
minimum1000
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message: string
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documentation\_url: optional string
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source: optional object {pointer }
pointer: optional string
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success: boolean
Whether the API call was successful.
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result: optional object {id, account\_id, association\_status, 3 more }
A recipient of a share. The association_status field tracks the lifecycle of the shared resources in the recipient account. All recipients are returned by the list endpoint regardless of status; filter client-side if only active recipients are needed.
id: string
Share Recipient identifier tag.
maxLength32
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account\_id: string
Account identifier.
maxLength32
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association\_status: "associating"or "associated"or "disassociating"or "disassociated"
The current state of the recipient relative to the share. The desired_association_status (not exposed in the response) tracks the target state set by the API; the background reconciliation workflow drives current_association_status toward it.
- associating — The recipient was recently added; the workflow is pushing shared resources into the recipient account.
- associated — Shared resources have been successfully applied to the recipient account.
- disassociating — The recipient was removed (via DELETE or PUT replacement); the workflow is removing shared resources from the recipient account.
- disassociated — Shared resources have been removed from the recipient account. The recipient record remains in the database.
One of the following:
"associating"
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"associated"
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"disassociating"
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"disassociated"
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created: string
When the share was created.
formatdate-time
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modified: string
When the share was modified.
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resources: optional array of object {error, resource\_id, resource\_version, terminal }
error: string
Share Recipient error message.
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resource\_id: string
Share Resource identifier.
maxLength32
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resource\_version: number
Resource Version.
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terminal: boolean
Whether the error is terminal or will be continually retried.
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### Trigger a recipient removal from a share
HTTP
HTTPTypeScriptPythonGoTerraform
```
curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/shares/$SHARE_ID/recipients/$RECIPIENT_ID \
-X DELETE \
-H "X-Auth-Email: $CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL" \
-H "X-Auth-Key: $CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY"
```
200 example
```
{
"errors": [
{
"code": 1000,
"message": "message",
"documentation_url": "documentation_url",
"source": {
"pointer": "pointer"
}
}
],
"success": true,
"result": {
"id": "3fd85f74b32742f1bff64a85009dda07",
"account_id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"association_status": "associating",
"created": "2023-09-21T18:56:32.624632Z",
"modified": "2023-09-21T18:56:32.624632Z",
"resources": [
{
"error": "Recipient is missing necessary entitlement",
"resource_id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"resource_version": 0,
"terminal": true
}
]
}
}
```
##### Returns Examples
200 example
```
{
"errors": [
{
"code": 1000,
"message": "message",
"documentation_url": "documentation_url",
"source": {
"pointer": "pointer"
}
}
],
"success": true,
"result": {
"id": "3fd85f74b32742f1bff64a85009dda07",
"account_id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"association_status": "associating",
"created": "2023-09-21T18:56:32.624632Z",
"modified": "2023-09-21T18:56:32.624632Z",
"resources": [
{
"error": "Recipient is missing necessary entitlement",
"resource_id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"resource_version": 0,
"terminal": true
}
]
}
}
```