# Delete all posts by a user on entire site with API?

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-all-posts-by-a-user-on-entire-site-with-api/302332 "2024-04-04T02:53:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-all-posts-by-a-user-on-entire-site-with-api/302332/19 "2024-04-04T15:37:19Z")

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> [@45thj5ej](#):
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> Oh, sweet! So I would just make the URL:  
> `http://mysite.com/admin/users/79/delete_posts_batch` ?  
> Or, what is the “79” here? a user ID I assume that you get when you go to the user’s profile?

Yes, that’s the user’s ID, and it’s a `PUT` request. It returns the number of deleted posts.

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