How to Edit or Delete Submissions via external source by API

[habibie]

Hi all,

Is there any KOBO API available for editing or deleting submissions from external source or application?

[Kal_Lam]

Welcome to the community, @habibie! This post discussed previously should help you solve your issue:

Delete submissions using rest api

Yes. You use the REST “DELETE” method against desired submission endpoint AFAIK there is no exposed REST API to delete a one or more submissions based on a specific criteria, eg date. Instead, what you have to do is identify the unique REST endpoint corresponding to the specific submission instance under its associated form instance. Typically, the process would be to enumerate your forms (if you didnt already know the form id), eg HOST=https://kf.kobotoolbox.org curl -v --header 'Accept: a…

[habibie]

Thanks! It deleted the submission one time but when I wanna delete another one so the 404 message shows. but it not deletes the record for next time.

[Kal_Lam]

@habibie, did you try again by refreshing your page?

[habibie]

I have restarted multiple times