---
title: "Remove a team member – Superbot API"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/developers/teams/removeTeamMember"
summary: "Remove a member. Admins remove members below them; owners remove anyone except the last owner (409 last_owner)."
---

> Markdown of https://superbot.gg/developers/teams/removeTeamMember. Site index: /llms.txt.

# Remove a team member

`DELETE /v1/teams/{team_id}/members/{user_id}`

Remove a member. Admins remove members below them; owners remove anyone except the last owner (409 last_owner).

- Operation id: `removeTeamMember`
- Group: [Teams](https://superbot.gg/developers/teams.md)
- Auth: A caller key holding `teams:write` (`Authorization: Bearer sbc_…` or `x-api-key: sbc_…`), or a signed-in session.
- Scopes: `teams:write`

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `team_id` | string | required | The team id. |
| `user_id` | string | required | The member’s account id. |

## Response 200

The member is removed.

`application/json`: RemovedTeamMember.

- `object` (string, required): One of `team_member`.
- `user_id` (string, required)
- `deleted` (boolean, required): One of `true`.

## Errors

Every refusal carries `error`, `message`, `doc_url` and `request_id`; the gateway routes answer in the dialect you dialed.

| Status | Codes | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | [`unauthorized`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-unauthorized) | The bearer is missing, malformed or unknown. |
| 403 | [`insufficient_scope`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-insufficient_scope) | The key lacks a scope (insufficient_scope), is revoked, or may not call this route. |
| 404 | [`not_found`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-not_found) | No such resource on this account. |
| 409 | [`conflict`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-conflict) | The resource is not in a state that allows this change. |

## Examples

```sh
curl -sS -X DELETE "https://superbot.gg/v1/teams/$TEAM_ID/members/$USER_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERBOT_API_KEY"
```

```js
const teamId = 'TEAM_ID';
const userId = 'USER_ID';
const res = await fetch(`https://superbot.gg/v1/teams/${teamId}/members/${userId}`, {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SUPERBOT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());
```

```python
import os
import requests

team_id = "TEAM_ID"
user_id = "USER_ID"
res = requests.request(
    "DELETE",
    f"https://superbot.gg/v1/teams/{team_id}/members/{user_id}",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SUPERBOT_API_KEY']}",
    },
)
print(res.status_code, res.json())
```