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# Remove a library member

> End a non-owner membership while retaining its owner-removal cutoff. Repeating removal returns the same record without advancing the cutoff. The owner cannot be removed; retrying that request unchanged returns 409.



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://api.gumnut.ai/openapi.json delete /api/libraries/{library_id}/members/{user_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: 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: server
    description: Service health.
paths:
  /api/libraries/{library_id}/members/{user_id}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - libraries
      summary: Remove a library member
      description: >-
        End a non-owner membership while retaining its owner-removal cutoff.
        Repeating removal returns the same record without advancing the cutoff.
        The owner cannot be removed; retrying that request unchanged returns
        409.
      operationId: remove_library_member
      parameters:
        - name: library_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            description: Library identifier.
            title: Library Id
          description: Library identifier.
        - name: user_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            description: Member account identifier.
            title: User Id
          description: Member account identifier.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MembershipResponse'
        '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/SharingErrorResponse'
        '409':
          description: >-
            `owner_membership_protected`: the owner's membership cannot be
            removed. Retrying unchanged will not clear the conflict. 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:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/SharingErrorResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnprocessableEntityResponse'
        '429':
          description: >-
            Rate limit exceeded. 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:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/SharingErrorResponse'
      security:
        - clerkSession: []
components:
  schemas:
    MembershipResponse:
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          title: Id
          description: Stable membership record identifier.
        library_id:
          type: string
          title: Library Id
          description: Library this membership belongs to.
        user:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserSummary'
          description: Member account summary.
        role:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LibraryMemberRole'
          description: Current or last assigned role.
        state:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LibraryMembershipState'
        joined_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          title: Joined At
          description: Most recent admission instant.
        ended_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
            - type: 'null'
          title: Ended At
          description: Most recent departure or removal instant, or null while active.
        last_removed_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
            - type: 'null'
          title: Last Removed At
          description: Retained owner-removal cutoff for readmission, or null.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          title: Created At
          description: When this record was created.
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          title: Updated At
          description: When this record last changed.
      type: object
      required:
        - id
        - library_id
        - user
        - role
        - state
        - joined_at
        - ended_at
        - last_removed_at
        - created_at
        - updated_at
      title: MembershipResponse
    ErrorResponse:
      title: ErrorResponse
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          title: Detail
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation of the error.
      required:
        - detail
    SharingErrorResponse:
      title: SharingErrorResponse
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation of the library-sharing failure.
        code:
          type: string
          description: Stable library-sharing failure code.
      required:
        - detail
        - code
    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
    UserSummary:
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          title: Id
          description: User identifier
        display_name:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Display Name
          description: Public display name, when available
      type: object
      required:
        - id
        - display_name
      title: UserSummary
    LibraryMemberRole:
      type: string
      enum:
        - viewer
        - collaborator
      title: LibraryMemberRole
      description: >-
        Non-owner library permissions.


        viewer reads library content. collaborator also edits and organizes
        content,

        including trash and restore. Neither administers members or permanently

        deletes photos.
    LibraryMembershipState:
      type: string
      enum:
        - active
        - left
        - removed
      title: LibraryMembershipState
      description: |-
        A member's library access state.

        active grants the assigned role. left means the member departed; removed
        means the owner revoked access. left and removed grant no access.
    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.
    clerkSession:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        First-party Gumnut app session (Clerk session JWT). Only the Gumnut web
        and mobile apps can obtain one — API keys and OAuth tokens cannot manage
        credentials or library sharing, so these operations are not callable
        with the credentials this API otherwise accepts.

````