Delete a draft campaign

Deletes a campaign for good. Only a draft that was never published and has nobody and nothing on it: no applicants or creators, no contract signed, no billing, no search, matching or outreach, no Discord server set up, and no publish request waiting on the team. Anything else is refused with the reason. A live campaign is paused, never deleted. This cannot be undone.

DELETEhttps://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/{campaignId}

Scopecampaigns:write
Write
Safe to retry
MCP toolscouty_delete_campaign

Markdown version for your agent

Authorization

Send a Scouty token as a bearer token in the Authorization header. The token needs the campaigns:write scope, or the call answers 403 insufficient_scope. Tokens and scopes

Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTY_TOKEN

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`campaignId`	`integer`	Required	The campaign this is about.

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Idempotency-Key`	`string`	Optional	The same key the body's idempotencyKey carries. Send one or the other, or both with the same value.

Body parameters

A JSON object, sent with Content-Type: application/json.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`idempotencyKey`	`string`	Required	A key you choose for this call, 8 to 128 characters of letters, digits, dot, underscore, colon or hyphen. Sending the same key with the same arguments replays the first answer and changes nothing, so a retry after a timeout is safe.

Errors

A refusal answers { "error": { "code", "message" } }. Branch on code; the message is for a person. Every error and its fix

Status	error.code	Meaning
400 Bad Request	`invalid_request`	The request was not the shape this capability takes, or its body was not JSON.
401 Unauthorized	`missing_token` `invalid_token` `token_revoked` `token_expired` `token_orphaned`	No token, or one that is not recognized, revoked or expired.
403 Forbidden	`insufficient_scope` `wrong_principal`	The token does not carry the scope this capability needs.
404 Not Found	`not_found`	No such route, or no such campaign for this client.
409 Conflict	`idempotency_conflict`	That idempotency key was already used for a different request. Nothing was changed.
429 Too Many Requests	`rate_limited`	Too many requests this minute. Retry-After says how long is left.

const response = await fetch("https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42", { method: "DELETE", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SCOUTY_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ idempotencyKey: "delete-42-1" }), }); console.log(await response.json());

import os import requests token = os.environ["SCOUTY_TOKEN"] response = requests.delete( "https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}, json={ "idempotencyKey": "delete-42-1", }, ) print(response.json())