# Ask for the account to be deleted, a week from now

> tidekeeper's API reference: https://tidekeeper.eu/docs/api/post-account-deletion

`POST /api/v1/account/deletion`

Ask for the account to be deleted, a week from now. Owners only.

## What to send

`DeletionAsk`: The account's name, typed to say that deleting it is meant.

- `name` (string, needed)

## The answer

200, `AccountView`: What an account is, to its members.

- `delete_days` (integer, needed): How many days an owner's own wish to delete waits.
- `deletion` (Deletion or null)
- `id` (string, needed)
- `instance` (boolean): The account of whoever runs this tidekeeper. It is not deleted from here: it goes when the instance does.
- `name` (string, needed)
- `pending` (boolean): It is new and waits for whoever runs this tidekeeper to approve it: nothing is counted until then.
- `suspended` (Suspended or null)

## Asking

```sh
curl -X POST https://tidekeeper.eu/api/v1/account/deletion \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $TIDEKEEPER_TOKEN" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"name": "…"}'
```