# Delete folder (/docs/api/folders/delete-folder)

## OpenAPI

```json
{
  "info": {
    "description": "The Circleback public REST API provides programmatic access to your meetings, notes, action items, transcripts, and more. Authenticate every request by sending your API key as a bearer token.",
    "title": "Circleback Public API",
    "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  "openapi": "3.2.0",
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://circleback.ai/api"
    }
  ],
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "ApiKeyAuth": {
        "bearerFormat": "cb_<secret>",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "type": "http"
      }
    }
  },
  "tags": [
    {
      "description": "See the folders that organize meetings, who can read them, and the rules that file meetings into them.",
      "name": "Folders"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/folder/{folderId}": {
      "delete": {
        "description": "Deletes a shared folder. Meetings that were only in this folder go back to the workspace folder.",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "description": "The unique identifier of the folder.",
            "in": "path",
            "name": "folderId",
            "required": true,
            "schema": {
              "minLength": 1,
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "properties": {
                    "success": {
                      "const": true,
                      "type": "boolean"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "success"
                  ],
                  "type": "object"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "Successful response."
          },
          "400": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "properties": {
                    "code": {
                      "description": "A machine-readable code identifying the type of failure.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "error": {
                      "description": "A human-readable message explaining why the request failed.",
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "seatsToAdd": {
                      "description": "The authoritative number of workspace seats required.",
                      "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                      "type": "integer"
                    },
                    "issues": {
                      "description": "The field-level validation issues found in an invalid request.",
                      "items": {
                        "additionalProperties": false,
                        "properties": {
                          "message": {
                            "description": "A human-readable explanation of the validation failure.",
                            "type": "string"
                          },
                          "path": {
                            "description": "The location of the request field that failed validation.",
                            "type": "string"
                          }
                        },
                        "required": [
                          "path",
                          "message"
                        ],
                        "type": "object"
                      },
                      "type": "array"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "error"
                  ],
                  "type": "object"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The request failed validation."
          },
          "429": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/paths/~1folder~1{folderId}/delete/responses/400/content/application~1json/schema"
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The request exceeded the rate limit for the account's plan, which the error message names: 3 requests per second and 20 per minute on Free, 20 per second and 300 per minute on Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Retry after the number of seconds in the `Retry-After` header."
          }
        },
        "security": [
          {
            "ApiKeyAuth": []
          }
        ],
        "summary": "Delete folder",
        "tags": [
          "Folders"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}
```