# API - How to revoke badge from a user

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [11.Июнь.2016 07:13:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-how-to-revoke-badge-from-a-user/45560 "2016-06-11T07:13:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [11.Июнь.2016 11:06:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-how-to-revoke-badge-from-a-user/45560/2 "2016-06-11T11:06:57Z")

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This took a moment to research, but it’s not that hard actually:

- `GET` to `/user-badges/<username>.json`
- In the result, inspect `user_badges` and find the entry you want to delete. You can identify the badge by its `badge_id`, which will be defined in the `badges` property of the answer.
- Look at the `id` property of the entry you want to delete, and `DELETE` `/user_badges/<id>`.

Interestingly, the response to `/user-badges/<username>.json` also contains a few badges the have not been granted to this user – maybe a :discourse: team member can explain why 🙂

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