curl -X POST "https://api.dcycle.io/v2/employees/delete" \
  -H "x-api-key: ${DCYCLE_API_KEY}" \
  -H "x-organization-id: ${DCYCLE_ORG_ID}" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: 2e1d0c9b-8a7f-4e6d-9c5b-4a3f2e1d0c9b" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ids": ["4c3b2a19-0f8e-4d7c-9b6a-5f4e3d2c1b0a"]}'

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.dcycle.io/v2/employees/delete",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": os.environ["DCYCLE_API_KEY"],
        "x-organization-id": os.environ["DCYCLE_ORG_ID"],
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),  # keep it to retry this same batch
    },
    json={"ids": ["4c3b2a19-0f8e-4d7c-9b6a-5f4e3d2c1b0a"]},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json()["id"])

{
  "id": "9d8c7b6a-5f4e-4d3c-8b2a-190f8e7d6c5b",
  "status": "processing",
  "entity_type": "employees",
  "operation": "delete",
  "source": "api_bulk",
  "counts": { "submitted": 1, "succeeded": 0, "failed": 0 },
  "chunks_total": 1,
  "chunks_done": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-10-20T09:20:31.877Z",
  "finished_at": null,
  "links": {
    "self": "/v2/ingest-jobs/9d8c7b6a-5f4e-4d3c-8b2a-190f8e7d6c5b",
    "items": "/v2/ingest-jobs/9d8c7b6a-5f4e-4d3c-8b2a-190f8e7d6c5b/items"
  }
}

{
  "type": "https://code.dcycle.io/api-reference/errors#BULK_RECORDS_REJECTED",
  "title": "Unprocessable Entity",
  "status": 422,
  "code": "BULK_RECORDS_REJECTED",
  "detail": "1 of the submitted records are invalid; nothing was written.",
  "errors": [
    {
      "source_row_index": 0,
      "client_row_id": null,
      "error_code": "NOT_FOUND",
      "error_params": { "field": "ids", "value": "4c3b2a19-0f8e-4d7c-9b6a-5f4e3d2c1b0a" }
    }
  ],
  "rejected": 1,
  "request_id": "b2248a31-0f1b-4a7d-83ce-b29bd5977b4c"
}

{ "dry_run": true, "submitted": 1, "valid": 1 }