Delete Directory

Delete Crowdin project directory. All nested files and directories will be deleted too.

Request

Note: Either use the combination of project identifier and project key or combination of project identifier, username, and account key to pass to this endpoint.

POST https://api.crowdin.com/api/project/{project-identifier}/delete-directory?key={project-key}&name={directory name}
POST https://api.crowdin.com/api/project/{project-identifier}/delete-directory?login={username}&account-key={account-key}&name={directory name}

Parameters

Name Value Description
name required string Directory path (or just the name if it's a root directory).
branch optional string Name of the related version branch (Versions Management). Specify only if you want to delete a directory inside this branch.
json optional string May not contain value. Defines that response should be in JSON format.
jsonp optional string Callback function name. Defines that response should be in JSONP format.
Variables
project-identifier string Project identifier.
project-key string Project API key. Either the project-key or combination of username and account-key are required.
username string Your username in Crowdin. Either the project-key or combination of username and account-key are required.
account-key string Your account API key. Either the project-key or combination of username and account-key are required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a XML structure, as it is shown below. 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<success>
</success>
Unsuccessful response sample: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<error>
  <code>3</code>
  <message>API key is not valid</message>
</error>

Examples

curl \
  -F "name=localizable" \
  https://api.crowdin.com/api/project/{project-identifier}/delete-directory?key={project-key}
<?php
$post_params = array();
$request_url = 'https://api.crowdin.com/api/project/{project-identifier}/delete-directory?key={project-key}';
$post_params['name'] = '/localizable/texts';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_params);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $result;

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