# How to remove someone from a Message?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1 juni 2015 om 16:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518 "2015-06-01T16:32:49Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2 december 2017 om 20:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/12 "2017-12-02T20:10:33Z")

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Sure! Everything you can do through the UI can be done through the API, the UI is using the API 🙂  
Just remove a user from a group while watching the networks requests in your Browser’s Dev tools to see how this API call works. The following How-To has details:

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

If you have any trouble following this, just let us know 🙂

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