Delete label definitions.
Required capabilities:
labelsAcl:WRITE
Delete all the label definitions specified by their external ids. The resource items that have the corresponding label attached remain unmodified. It is up to the client to clean up the resource items from their attached labels if necessary.
POST
/
labels
/
delete
JavaScript SDK
await client.labels.delete([{externalId: 'PUMP'}, {externalId: 'VALVE'}]);client.labels.delete(external_id=["big_pump", "small_pump"])
List<Item> deleteItemsByExternalIds = List.of(Item.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.build());
List<Item> deleteItemsResults =
client.labels().delete(deleteItemsByExternalIds);
List<Item> deleteItemsByInternalIds = List.of(Item.newBuilder()
.setId(10)
.build());
List<Item> deleteItemsResults =
client.labels().delete(deleteItemsByInternalIds);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id"
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => 'my.known.id'
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\"\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\"\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}Authorizations
oidc-tokenoauth2-client-credentialsoauth2-open-industrial-dataoauth2-auth-code
Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
Body
application/json
List of external ids of label definitions to delete.
Required array length:
1 - 1000 elementsShow child attributes
Show child attributes
Response
Empty response.
The response is of type object.
Last modified on September 11, 2026
⌘I
JavaScript SDK
await client.labels.delete([{externalId: 'PUMP'}, {externalId: 'VALVE'}]);client.labels.delete(external_id=["big_pump", "small_pump"])
List<Item> deleteItemsByExternalIds = List.of(Item.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.build());
List<Item> deleteItemsResults =
client.labels().delete(deleteItemsByExternalIds);
List<Item> deleteItemsByInternalIds = List.of(Item.newBuilder()
.setId(10)
.build());
List<Item> deleteItemsResults =
client.labels().delete(deleteItemsByInternalIds);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id"
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => 'my.known.id'
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\"\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels/delete")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\"\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}