# Delete Catalog

Source: https://recoupable.dev/docs/api-reference/songs/catalog-delete

Delete a catalog. Removes the catalog, its song membership (catalog_songs), its ownership links (account_catalogs) and its stored valuation history (catalog_valuations).

## DELETE /api/catalogs/{catalogId}

Full OpenAPI specification: https://recoupable.dev/docs/spec/releases.json

## Authentication

This operation requires one of the security alternatives in the specification below. Security scheme definitions are included where present in the published specification.

[Authentication guide](https://recoupable.dev/docs/authentication)

## Operation and referenced schemas

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "Recoup API - Releases",
    "description": "API documentation for the Recoup platform - an AI agent platform for the music industry",
    "license": {
      "name": "MIT"
    },
    "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.recoupable.dev"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/api/catalogs/{catalogId}": {
      "delete": {
        "description": "Delete a catalog. Removes the catalog, its song membership (catalog_songs), its ownership links (account_catalogs) and its stored valuation history (catalog_valuations).\n\nThe measurement that produced the catalog is **not** deleted. A playcount snapshot is a metered capture that spent credits and cannot be reproduced for a past date, while a catalog is a label over songs that can be rebuilt from it in one call — so deleting a catalog only clears the snapshot's reference to it. The snapshot then reads as unclaimed, and [Create catalog](/api-reference/songs/catalogs-create) can re-materialize it under a correct name. The released snapshot IDs are returned so that recovery does not require hunting for them.\n\nUse this for genuine duplicates. To fix a catalog's name, use [Rename catalog](/api-reference/songs/catalog-rename) instead — it keeps the catalog's measurements and valuation history intact.",
        "security": [
          {
            "apiKeyAuth": []
          },
          {
            "bearerAuth": []
          }
        ],
        "parameters": [
          {
            "name": "catalogId",
            "in": "path",
            "description": "ID of the catalog to delete.",
            "required": true,
            "schema": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uuid"
            }
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "Catalog deleted",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DeleteCatalogResponse"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "400": {
            "description": "Bad request - catalogId is not a valid UUID",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CatalogsErrorResponse"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "401": {
            "description": "Unauthorized - missing or invalid credentials",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CatalogsErrorResponse"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "404": {
            "description": "Catalog not found - no catalog with this ID is visible to the caller. A catalog that exists but belongs to neither the authenticated account nor one of its organizations returns 404, not 403: the same visibility rule the catalog read paths use, so a catalog you cannot see is indistinguishable from one that does not exist.",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CatalogsErrorResponse"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "500": {
            "description": "Internal server error",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CatalogsErrorResponse"
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "schemas": {
      "DeleteCatalogResponse": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "Response returned after deleting a catalog",
        "required": [
          "status",
          "catalog_id",
          "released_snapshot_ids"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "status": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "success"
            ],
            "description": "Status of the request"
          },
          "catalog_id": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uuid",
            "description": "ID of the deleted catalog"
          },
          "released_snapshot_ids": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "IDs of the playcount snapshots that pointed at this catalog. Those snapshots still exist - only their catalog reference was cleared - so each can be re-materialized into a new, correctly named catalog with Create catalog. Empty when the catalog was not created from a measurement run.",
            "items": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uuid"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "CatalogsErrorResponse": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "status": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "error"
            ],
            "description": "Status of the request"
          },
          "error": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Error message describing what went wrong"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "securitySchemes": {
      "apiKeyAuth": {
        "type": "apiKey",
        "in": "header",
        "name": "x-api-key",
        "description": "Your Recoup API key. [Learn more](/quickstart#api-keys)."
      },
      "bearerAuth": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer"
      }
    }
  }
}
```