Delete a monitor

Beta DELETE /v1/monitors/{monitor_id}

DELETE /v1/monitors/{monitor_id}

Delete a monitor.

• Cost: Free
• Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
• Cache: Not cached.

Parameters#

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl -X DELETE "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/monitors/mon_0123456789abcdef" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"

import os
import requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/monitors/mon_0123456789abcdef",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

const res = await fetch("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/monitors/mon_0123456789abcdef", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

Example response#

This is a sample with illustrative values. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 0,
  "credits_remaining": 5000,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_56b5fd791543e639a6c65127",
  "data": {
    "object": "monitor",
    "id": "mon_0123456789abcdef",
    "endpoint": "/v1/github/user/repositories",
    "params": {
      "handle": "torvalds"
    },
    "interval_minutes": 60,
    "webhook_url": "https://example.com/hook",
    "active": false,
    "created_at": "2026-10-29T14:00:00Z",
    "webhook_secret": null,
    "last_run_at": "2026-10-29T15:00:00Z",
    "next_run_at": null,
    "last_error": null
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Response#

A Monitor object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Related endpoints#

• Create a monitor (POST /v1/monitors)
• List monitors (GET /v1/monitors)
• Send a test event (POST /v1/monitors/{monitor_id}/test)
• Webhook delivery log (GET /v1/monitors/{monitor_id}/deliveries)
• Send an event again (POST /v1/monitors/events/{event_id}/redeliver)
• Monitor events (GET /v1/monitors/events)