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# Deleting a region targeting rule

> 📘 Information below might be outdated - please visit our recently updated [API Reference](https://developers.short.io/reference/)

The instruction below shows how to delete a region targeting rule for a link.

### **1)** Get your API key here: <https://app.short.io/settings/integrations/api-key>

* Click "Create API key".
* Add a **Secret** key.

![](https://files.readme.io/f375937-Screen_Shot_2021-08-11_at_2.57.06_PM.png "Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 2.57.06 PM.png")

### **2)** Copy an ID of a short link you want to delete a region targeting rule.

* Open the statistics of the short link.
* Copy the link ID.

![](https://files.readme.io/a5095df-1.png "1.png")

![](https://files.readme.io/083367d-Screen_Shot_2021-08-11_at_3.15.24_PM.png "Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 3.15.24 PM.png")

### **3)** Install prerequisites for requests.

```python
pip install requests
```
```javascript Node.js
npm install --save axios
```

Now everything is ready to run the following snippet. It will delete a region targeting rule.

### **4)** Create a file: **filename.py/ .js/ .rb**. Use the code snippet below.

> 📘
>
> Please, replace link\_idString and ISO country code, ISO region code with appropriate values.

You need to specify country **ISO code** and country region code in ISO-3166-2 format. Example: US (country) - United States; NY (region) - New York. You can find a necessary ISO code here: <http://www.geonames.org>

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.short.io/link_region/link_idString/DZ/07"

headers = {'authorization': '<<apiKey>>'}

response = requests.request("DELETE", url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```
```javascript Node.js
const axios = require('axios');

const options = {
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/json',
      authorization: '<<apiKey>>'
    }
  };

  axios.delete('https://api.short.io/link_region/LINK_ID/AO/18', options)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
}) .catch(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
```
```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.short.io/link_region/LINK_ID/AO/17")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

### **5)** Launch the file.

```python
python filename.py
```
```javascript Node.js
node filename.js
```
```ruby Ruby
ruby filename.rb
```

### **6)** JSON Response (a region targeting rule is removed).

Once you run the code, you will see the response.

```json
{ 
  success: true 
}
```