How to delete pads in etherpad-lite

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legami picture legami · Aug 17, 2012 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

Is it possible? How? I only can create or edit created. I am using my own server. I would like to admin or at least delete some pads.

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wolxXx picture wolxXx · Oct 17, 2012

if you are still expecting an answer: via the provided api. you need the api key (e.g. /var/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt) and the id of the pad you want to delete (e.g. mypad). then you send a simple http request to

http://yourserver.org:9001/api/1/deletePad?apikey=yourkey&padID=mypad

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