Unfollow User - X

DELETE

/

2

/

users

/

{source_user_id}

/

following

/

{target_user_id}

Unfollow User

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "following": true
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "title": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "detail": "<string>",
      "status": 123
    }
  ]
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

The access token received from the authorization server in the OAuth 2.0 flow.

FlowAuthorization Code

Authorization URL: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/authorize
Token URL: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token

Scopes3

follows.write

Follow and unfollow accounts on your behalf.

tweet.read

View all Posts you can see, including those from protected accounts.

users.read

View any account you can see, including protected accounts.

Path Parameters

source_user_id

string

required

The ID of the authenticated source User that is requesting to unfollow the target User. Unique identifier of this User. The value must be the same as the authenticated user.

Example:

"2244994945"

target_user_id

string

required

The ID of the User that the source User is requesting to unfollow. Unique identifier of this User. This is returned as a string in order to avoid complications with languages and tools that cannot handle large integers.

Pattern: ^[0-9]{1,19}$

Example:

"2244994945"

Response

The request has succeeded.

data

object

Show child attributes

errors

object[]

Minimum array length: 1

An HTTP Problem Details object, as defined in IETF RFC 7807 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807).

Show child attributes

Unfollow User

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.x.com/2/users/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "following": true
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "title": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "detail": "<string>",
      "status": 123
    }
  ]
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>"
}