Delete a repo label

DELETE/api/repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{label_id}

deleteRepoLabel

Detaches the label from every issue that carries it. A label id belonging to another repo answers 404, not 403.

Requires authentication using a bearer token or a session cookie — see tokens and scopes.

curl

curl -X DELETE 'https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/labels/LABEL_ID' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $NEOSOURCE_TOKEN'

fetch

fetch("https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/labels/LABEL_ID", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer $NEOSOURCE_TOKEN",
  },
});

Path parameters

ownerrequired: string
reporequired: string
label_idrequired: string

Responses

204Label deleted

Standard errors

Bodies documented once for the whole API — see standard errors.

400Bad Request — one of: invalid_input
401Authentication required
403Forbidden — one of: forbidden
404Not Found — one of: not_found
409Conflict — one of: already_exists, conflict, non_fast_forward
423Locked — one of: busy
429Rate limited — retry after the `Retry-After` header
500Internal server error
503Service temporarily unavailable / at capacity — retry after the `Retry-After` header
504Gateway timeout — the request exceeded the server's handling budget