Unsubscribe from a stream
DELETE https://zulip.pms.ifi.lmu.de/api/v1/users/me/subscriptions
Unsubscribe yourself or other users from one or more streams.
In addition to managing the current user's subscriptions, this
endpoint can be used to remove other users from streams. This
is possible in 3 situations:
- Organization administrators can remove any user from any
stream.
- Users can remove a bot that they own from any stream that
the user can access.
- Users can unsubscribe any user from a stream if they have
access to the stream and are a
member of the user group specified
by the
can_remove_subscribers_group_id
for the stream.
Changes: Before Zulip 7.0 (feature level 161), the
can_remove_subscribers_group_id for all streams was always
the system group for organization administrators.
Before Zulip 6.0 (feature level 145), users had no special
privileges for managing bots that they own.
Usage examples
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import zulip
# Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
client = zulip.Client(config_file="~/zuliprc")
# Unsubscribe from the stream "new stream"
result = client.remove_subscriptions(
["new stream"],
)
# Unsubscribe another user from the stream "new stream"
result = client.remove_subscriptions(
["new stream"],
principals=["newbie@zulip.com"],
)
print(result)
More examples and documentation can be found here.
const zulipInit = require("zulip-js");
// Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
const config = { zuliprc: "zuliprc" };
(async () => {
const client = await zulipInit(config);
// Unsubscribe from the stream "Denmark"
const meParams = {
subscriptions: JSON.stringify(["Denmark"]),
};
console.log(await client.users.me.subscriptions.remove(meParams));
const user_id = 7;
// Unsubscribe Zoe from the stream "Denmark"
const zoeParams = {
subscriptions: JSON.stringify(["Denmark"]),
principals: JSON.stringify([user_id]),
};
console.log(await client.users.me.subscriptions.remove(zoeParams));
})();
Note: Unsubscribing another user from a stream requires
administrative privileges.
curl -sSX DELETE https://zulip.pms.ifi.lmu.de/api/v1/users/me/subscriptions \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
--data-urlencode 'subscriptions=["Verona", "Denmark"]'
You may specify the principals parameter like so:
curl -sSX DELETE https://zulip.pms.ifi.lmu.de/api/v1/users/me/subscriptions \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
--data-urlencode 'subscriptions=["Verona", "Denmark"]' \
--data-urlencode 'principals=["ZOE@zulip.com"]'
Parameters
subscriptions (string)[] required
Example: ["Verona", "Denmark"]
A list of stream names to unsubscribe from. This parameter is called
streams in our Python API.
principals (string)[] | (integer)[] optional
Example: ["ZOE@zulip.com"]
A list of user IDs (preferred) or Zulip API email
addresses of the users to be subscribed to or unsubscribed
from the streams specified in the subscriptions parameter. If
not provided, then the requesting user/bot is subscribed.
Changes: The integer format is new in Zulip 3.0 (feature level 9).
Response
Return values
-
not_removed: (string)[]
A list of the names of streams that the user is already unsubscribed
from, and hence doesn't need to be unsubscribed.
-
removed: (string)[]
A list of the names of streams which were unsubscribed from as a result
of the query.
Example response(s)
Changes: As of Zulip 7.0 (feature level 167), if any
parameters sent in the request are not supported by this
endpoint, a successful JSON response will include an
ignored_parameters_unsupported array.
A typical successful JSON response may look like:
{
"msg": "",
"not_removed": [],
"removed": [
"new stream"
],
"result": "success"
}
A typical failed JSON response for when the target stream does not exist:
{
"code": "STREAM_DOES_NOT_EXIST",
"msg": "Stream 'nonexistent_stream' does not exist",
"result": "error",
"stream": "nonexistent_stream"
}