> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sorank.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete an eligible local article > Never silently unpublishes its remote CMS copy. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.yaml delete /profiles/{profile_id}/articles/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: SORANK Public API version: 1.1.0 description: > Versioned REST contract for user-delegated SORANK access, served under `/api/public/v1`. Contract 1.1 adds products, Search Console and AI traffic analytics, extended GEO reads and site settings to the same version path. Availability of each operation depends on the deployed backend version and the public API feature flag. OAuth tokens are resource-bound to the REST API. Personal API keys may use REST only when their transport grant permits it. Browser session cookies and Supabase tokens are not credentials for this surface. Every request is checked against the credential's exact scopes, explicit profile allowlist and the actor's current profile access. The resource owner and billable account are resolved server-side. A revoked or expired credential is rejected even on idempotent replay and operation polling. Eligibility: the user must have completed Sorank onboarding and the accessed site must have a valid subscription (the owner's subscription for an agency collaborator; a site without a subscription is not eligible). Eligibility is checked at OAuth consent, at personal key creation and replacement, and again on every REST request and MCP tool call, including idempotent replays and operation polling. An incomplete onboarding returns 403 `onboarding_required`; an ineligible site returns 402 `subscription_required` with `details.reason`. `listProfiles` returns only the eligible sites of the grant; operations without a profile require at least one eligible site. All mutations require `Idempotency-Key`. Repeating an identical command with the same key returns its original receipt after fresh authorization; a changed command with the same key returns 409. An accepted asynchronous command may still fail later. Do not treat an accepted batch as wholly complete: an article generation batch returns HTTP 202 with a receipt already `succeeded` (the acceptance is the command's outcome), and each generated article is then followed through `getArticle` or `listArticles` from the receipt's accepted IDs. Settings commands return the resulting settings and the asynchronous `effects` they queued. Errors use one envelope everywhere, including authentication and rate-limit middlewares: `{"error": {"code", "message", "request_id", "retryable", "details"?}}`. MCP tool errors carry the same `code`, `message`, `request_id`, `retryable` and `details` in the tool error result. Codes are stable snake_case identifiers; each operation lists the codes it can return in `x-error-codes`, and REST and MCP return the same code for the same cause. Error statuses: 400 invalid request (`invalid_request`, `invalid_id`, `invalid_idempotency_key` and field-specific validation codes such as `invalid_limit`, `invalid_range`, `field_not_writable` for a read-only field like `website_url`, `invalid_market`, `invalid_competitor_selection`, `too_many_competitors` or `invalid_url`); 401 missing/invalid/expired/revoked credential (`invalid_credential`, with a `WWW-Authenticate` challenge carrying `resource_metadata`); 402 `subscription_required` (with `details.reason` among `paused`, `past_due`, `incomplete`, `inactive` when known) or `insufficient_quota` for business quotas; 403 `missing_scope` or `onboarding_required`; 404 `not_found` for an inaccessible or unknown resource; 409 conflicts: `idempotency_conflict` (the key belongs to a different command), `calendar_busy` (retryable), `calendar_changed` (read the current calendar before retrying), `publication_busy` (retryable), `resource_busy` (retryable), `keyword_already_published`, `article_identity_conflict`, `slug_already_exists`, `product_catalog_cursor_stale` (restart the product list from the first page), `business_brief_revision_conflict` (read the settings again), `calendar_required`, `youtube_source_replacement_required` (send `replace: true`), `youtube_source_purge_in_progress` (retryable, with `Retry-After`); `gsc_not_connected`, `ga_not_connected` (connect Google in Sorank); 422 unsupported provider capability or state (`unsupported_capability`, `unsupported_category`, `cms_not_connected`, `publication_state_invalid`, `youtube_channel_unsupported`, `youtube_channel_not_found`, ...); 403 `google_access_lost` (with `details.reason` among `scope_missing`, `property_access_denied`, `token_expired`, `ga_permissions_lost`, `ga_property_unavailable`; reconnect Google in Sorank); 429 `rate_limited` or `youtube_rate_limited` (retryable, with `Retry-After` and `details.retry_after_seconds` when a delay is known); 500 `internal_error` for unexpected failures only; 503 `auth_state_unavailable` or `rate_limit_unavailable` (retryable), with access denied until the state recovers, `google_unavailable` or `youtube_unavailable` (retryable), or `youtube_feature_disabled` (not retryable: the integration is disabled on this deployment); 504 `ga_timeout` (retryable with a shorter range). Each operation has an MCP tool named by `x-mcp-tool`. Tool arguments are flat: `profile_id` and `id` for the path parameters, `idempotency_key` for the header, plus the query or body fields of the operation; list and batch bounds follow the deployment configuration. A tool result carries exactly the REST response body (`data` and `meta`). servers: - url: /api/public/v1 security: - OAuth2: [] - PersonalAPIKey: [] tags: - name: Profiles description: Accessible SEO profiles, capabilities and business quotas. - name: Keywords and GEO description: >- Existing keyword suggestions, GEO analysis results and GEO aggregates as shown by the Sorank dashboard. - name: Products description: Product catalog discovered on the profile's site. - name: Analytics description: | Live Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 reads, as shown by the Sorank dashboard. Each call queries Google; it may refresh and store the site's Google access token, never forces a cache refresh, and is charged to a dedicated analytics rate budget lower than other reads. Google Analytics exposure is limited to traffic coming from AI assistants. - name: Settings description: | Site settings as the Sorank settings pages show them to the same user, published as an allowlist: no owner identifier, homepage screenshot, connection field, storage path, signed URL or technical error. - name: Articles description: Local article reading, editing and generation. - name: Calendar description: Automatic editorial calendar and slot management. - name: Publication description: CMS publication, updates and scheduling. - name: Operations description: Durable command receipts and outcome polling. paths: /profiles/{profile_id}/articles/{id}: delete: tags: - Articles summary: Delete an eligible local article description: Never silently unpublishes its remote CMS copy. operationId: deleteArticle parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProfileID' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ResourceID' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey' responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/Deletion' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' default: $ref: '#/components/responses/Error' security: - OAuth2: - articles:delete - PersonalAPIKey: [] components: parameters: ProfileID: name: profile_id in: path required: true description: >- Profile UUID; must be in the grant allowlist and currently accessible to the actor. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' ResourceID: name: id in: path required: true description: >- Resource UUID, scoped by the path profile or persisted operation receipt. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' IdempotencyKey: name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: true description: >- Opaque client command key of 1 to 128 visible ASCII characters. UUID recommended; reuse only for the same command. schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 pattern: ^[!-~]+$ responses: Deletion: description: Explicit local deletion result and durable receipt. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeletionEnvelope' Unauthorized: description: Credential missing, invalid, expired or revoked. headers: WWW-Authenticate: description: Bearer challenge with configured resource metadata where applicable. schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' Error: description: Error response; see status-to-code mapping in API description. headers: Retry-After: description: >- Seconds until retry when HTTP 429 is returned, or with 409 youtube_source_purge_in_progress. schema: type: integer minimum: 1 content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' schemas: UUID: type: string format: uuid DeletionEnvelope: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - data - meta properties: data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeletionData' meta: $ref: '#/components/schemas/MutationMeta' ErrorEnvelope: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - error properties: error: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorBody' examples: - error: code: insufficient_quota message: The current article generation quota is exhausted. request_id: 33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333 retryable: false DeletionData: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - deleted - resource_id - receipt properties: deleted: type: boolean resource_id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' receipt: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CommandReceipt' MutationMeta: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - request_id - operation_id properties: request_id: type: string minLength: 1 operation_id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' ErrorBody: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - code - message - request_id - retryable properties: code: type: string description: Stable public error code; never a raw SQL, CMS or provider error. examples: - insufficient_quota - unsupported_capability message: type: string request_id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' retryable: type: boolean description: | True when repeating the same request later, unchanged and with the same Idempotency-Key, may succeed (transient busy state, rate limit, unavailable authorization or rate-limit state). False when the request or the resource state must change first. details: type: object additionalProperties: true description: >- Safe structured details only (for example `reason` for `subscription_required`); no tokens, prompts or internal commands. CommandReceipt: type: object additionalProperties: false description: | Durable receipt of a command; poll getOperation with operation_id until the status is terminal (`succeeded` or `failed`; `verification_pending` means the CMS outcome is still being verified). An article generation receipt is `succeeded` as soon as the batch is accepted. required: - operation_id - status - resource_id properties: operation_id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' status: type: string enum: - accepted - running - succeeded - failed - verification_pending resource_id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UUID' securitySchemes: OAuth2: type: oauth2 description: | Authorization-code grant with PKCE S256, exact scopes, explicit resource audience and a persisted consent grant. Obtain endpoint URLs from server discovery in the target environment. Refresh tokens remain client-bound. flows: authorizationCode: authorizationUrl: /oauth/authorize tokenUrl: /oauth/token refreshUrl: /oauth/token scopes: profiles:read: Read authorized profiles and CMS capabilities. quotas:read: Read business quotas. keywords:read: Read existing keyword suggestions. geo:read: Read existing GEO analyses. articles:read: Read articles and generation results. articles:write: Edit allowed local article fields. articles:generate: Generate articles. articles:delete: Delete eligible local articles. calendar:read: Read calendar and slots. calendar:write: Manage calendar and slots. articles:publish: Schedule and manage CMS publication. products:read: Read the product catalog. analytics:read: Read Search Console and AI traffic analytics. settings:read: Read site, article, visual and YouTube settings. settings:write: >- Change site, business, competitor, article, visual and YouTube settings. Some changes queue asynchronous regeneration or synchronization. PersonalAPIKey: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: Personal API key description: > Send the one-time personal API key in Authorization: Bearer. Exact scopes, explicit profiles, expiry, revocation and transport are verified server-side. This is not an OAuth access token or a browser session. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.