infisical/docs/api-reference/overview/examples/delete-secret.mdx

---
title: "Delete secret"
description: "How to delete a secret using an Infisical Token scoped to a project and environment"
---

Prerequisites:

- Set up and add envars to [Infisical Cloud](https://app.infisical.com).
- Create either an [API Key](/api-reference/overview/authentication) or [Infisical Token](/documentation/platform/token) for your project and environment with write access enabled.
- Grasp a basic understanding of the system and its underlying cryptography [here](/api-reference/overview/introduction).
- [Ensure that your project is blind-indexed](../blind-indices).

## Example

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Javascript">
```js
const axios = require('axios'); 
const BASE_URL = 'https://app.infisical.com';

const deleteSecrets = async () => {
  const serviceToken = 'your_service_token';
  const secretType = 'shared' // 'shared' or 'personal'
  const secretKey = 'some_key'
  
  // 1. Get your Infisical Token data
  const { data: serviceTokenData } = await axios.get(
      `${BASE_URL}/api/v2/service-token`,
      {
          headers: {
              Authorization: `Bearer ${serviceToken}`
          }
      }
  );

  // 2. Delete secret from Infisical
  await axios.delete(
    `${BASE_URL}/api/v3/secrets/${secretKey}`,
    {
      workspaceId: serviceTokenData.workspace,
      environment: serviceTokenData.environment,
      type: secretType
    },
    {
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${serviceToken}`
      },
    }
  );
};

deleteSecrets();
```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Python">
```Python
import requests

BASE_URL = "https://app.infisical.com"


def delete_secrets():
    service_token = "<your_service_token>"
    secret_type = "shared" # "shared" or "personal"
    secret_key = "some_key"

    # 1. Get your Infisical Token data
    service_token_data = requests.get(
        f"{BASE_URL}/api/v2/service-token",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {service_token}"},
    ).json() 

    # 2. Delete secret from Infisical
    requests.delete(
        f"{BASE_URL}/api/v2/secrets/{secret_key}",
        json={
            "workspaceId": service_token_data["workspace"],
            "environment": service_token_data["environment"],
            "type": secret_type
        },
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {service_token}"},
    )


delete_secrets()

```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>
<Info>
  If using an `API_KEY` to authenticate with the Infisical API, then you should include it in the `X_API_KEY` header.
</Info>