# How to delete application using rest api

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-delete-application-using-rest-api/52871>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-delete-application-using-rest-api/52871 "2019-02-18T13:23:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Abdalrahman\_Ayyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Abdalrahman\_Ayyad](https://community.wowza.com/u/Abdalrahman_Ayyad)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-delete-application-using-rest-api/52871/1 "2019-02-18T13:23:50Z")

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I want to create a script that calls REST API on Wowza streaming engine

that’s suppose to delete applications

but I cannot find anything inside REST API documents

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**Author:** ![Menno\_Prakken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@Menno\_Prakken](https://community.wowza.com/u/Menno_Prakken)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-delete-application-using-rest-api/52871/2 "2019-02-18T13:44:24Z")

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You can try with:

```auto
curl - X DELETE --header 'Accept:application/json; charset=utf-8' --header 'Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8' http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive

```

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**Author:** ![Abdalrahman\_Ayyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Abdalrahman\_Ayyad](https://community.wowza.com/u/Abdalrahman_Ayyad)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-delete-application-using-rest-api/52871/3 "2019-02-18T13:58:49Z")

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thank you Menno