Variables: delete

Requires authorization

Deletes a GTM variable. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/tagmanager/v1/accounts/accountId/containers/containerId/variables/variableId

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
accountId string The GTM Account ID.
containerId string The GTM Container ID.
variableId string The GTM Variable ID.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with the following scope (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tagmanager.edit.containers

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an empty response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.
 */

/*
 * This request deletes an existing variable for the authorized user.
 */
try {
  tagmanager.accounts().
      containers().variables().delete("123456", "54321", "2").execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.

# This request deletes an existing variable for the authorized user.
try:
  tagmanager.accounts().containers().variables().delete(
      accountId='123456',
      containerId='54321',
      variableId='3'
  ).execute()

except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

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