> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gumnut.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete a body > Deletes a body that is not a person; the asset and any person it was linked to are both preserved. **Use `update_body` with `person_id=null` instead** when it is a person but not this one. Use `trash_assets` to remove the photo. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.gumnut.ai/openapi.json delete /api/bodies/{body_id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Gumnut API description: >- The Gumnut API manages photo and video libraries: upload and organize assets, search by content, group detected faces into people, and curate albums and stacks. Headless clients authenticate by sending either a Gumnut API key (`apikey_...`) or an OAuth access token as a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header. The Gumnut web and mobile apps sign in with a first-party session (Clerk session JWT) instead, which is also the only credential that can manage API keys and library sharing. contact: name: Gumnut url: https://www.gumnut.ai/contact version: 1.0.0 servers: - url: https://api.gumnut.ai description: Production security: - apiKeyAuth: [] - oauthJwtAuth: [] tags: - name: assets description: >- Photos and videos in a library: upload, list and filter, update metadata, trash and restore. - name: search description: >- Content-based search over a library's assets, with album, person, date, and location filters. - name: albums description: User-curated collections of assets. - name: album-assets description: Link records connecting albums to their member assets. - name: stacks description: >- Groups of related shots of the same moment, presented as a single unit with a cover asset. - name: people description: Named people, each built from clustered faces. - name: faces description: Detected faces and their assignment to people. - name: bodies description: People found in photos without a face record. - name: libraries description: Top-level containers that own assets, albums, people, and everything else. - name: library-invitations description: First-party invitation management and admission for photo libraries. - name: events description: Change-event feed for keeping client state in sync. - name: tasks description: Status of background processing tasks. - name: users description: The authenticated user's profile. - name: api-keys description: >- Create and manage Gumnut API keys. Requires a first-party Gumnut app session — API keys and OAuth tokens cannot manage credentials. - name: oauth description: OAuth flow endpoints for obtaining and refreshing access tokens. - name: feedback description: Reports of friction using Gumnut. - name: server description: Service health. paths: /api/bodies/{body_id}: delete: tags: - bodies summary: Delete a body description: >- Deletes a body that is not a person; the asset and any person it was linked to are both preserved. **Use `update_body` with `person_id=null` instead** when it is a person but not this one. Use `trash_assets` to remove the photo. operationId: delete_body parameters: - name: body_id in: path required: true schema: type: string description: Body ID (with `body_` prefix) of the body to delete. title: Body Id description: Body ID (with `body_` prefix) of the body to delete. - name: library_id in: query required: false schema: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: >- Library the body belongs to. Optional if the user has a single live (non-trashed) library; required when they have multiple. title: Library Id description: >- Library the body belongs to. Optional if the user has a single live (non-trashed) library; required when they have multiple. responses: '200': description: Successful Response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeletionResponse' '401': description: Missing, invalid, or expired credentials. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '403': description: >- The credentials are valid but not authorized for this operation — for example an API key whose action or library scope excludes it, or a credential type this operation does not accept. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '404': description: Not found content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '409': description: >- Clerk sign-in could not be associated with the existing account. Resolve the identity conflict before retrying sign-in; repeated requests with unchanged verification and identity state will not resolve it. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '422': description: Validation Error content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnprocessableEntityResponse' '429': description: >- Rate limit exceeded, or too many of your requests are already in progress. Retry after the interval in the `Retry-After` header. headers: Retry-After: description: Seconds to wait before retrying. schema: type: integer content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '503': description: >- Authentication provider temporarily unavailable. Retry sign-in later. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' components: schemas: DeletionResponse: properties: {} type: object title: DeletionResponse description: Empty acknowledgment returned when an operation succeeds. x-stainless-empty-object: true ErrorResponse: title: ErrorResponse type: object properties: detail: title: Detail type: string description: Human-readable explanation of the error. required: - detail UnprocessableEntityResponse: title: UnprocessableEntityResponse type: object properties: detail: title: Detail description: >- A semantic validation message or structured request-validation errors. oneOf: - type: string description: Human-readable semantic validation message. - type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError' description: Structured request-validation errors. required: - detail ValidationError: properties: loc: items: anyOf: - type: string - type: integer type: array title: Location msg: type: string title: Message type: type: string title: Error Type input: title: Input ctx: type: object title: Context type: object required: - loc - msg - type title: ValidationError securitySchemes: apiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- Gumnut API key (`apikey_...`) sent as a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header. Create and manage keys in the Gumnut app, or with the API key endpoints while signed in to it. oauthJwtAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: >- Short-lived JWT obtained from the OAuth token exchange, sent as a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.