# Remove an authorized SSH key

From **GitHub v3 REST API**.

`DELETE /setup/api/settings/authorized-keys`

**Note:** The request body for this operation must be submitted as `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` data. You can submit a parameter value as a string, or you can use a tool such as `curl` to submit a parameter value as the contents of a text file. For more information, see the [`curl` documentation](https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--data-urlencode).

## Request body

- Required: true
### `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`

- Type: `object`

```json
{
  "authorized_key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgQCssTL/Vtu/ODLTj0VtZoRAbvf7uiv5997GyDq0MoAZUjb5jmA5wYe2/wF6sFuhiZTnZoF1ZtCHunPp0hM/GHrn6VySBhNncx14YO8FPt1CIhEeRMSEjUK9cY3xAbS365oXY8vnUHJsS9+1tr/2bx/+4NJfcUt/Ezf1OR/0LStQXw=="
}
```

```json
{"properties":{"authorized_key":{"description":"The public SSH key.","type":"string"}},"required":["authorized_key"],"type":"object"}
```

## Responses

### `200`

Response

### `application/json`

- Type: `array`

```json
[
  {
    "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAB...",
    "pretty-print": "ssh-rsa 01:14:0f:f2:0f:e2:fe:e8:f4:72:62:af:75:f7:1a:88:3e:04:92:64"
  },
  {
    "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAB...",
    "pretty-print": "ssh-rsa 01:14:0f:f2:0f:e2:fe:e8:f4:72:62:af:75:f7:1a:88:3e:04:92:64"
  },
  {
    "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAB...",
    "pretty-print": "ssh-rsa 01:14:0f:f2:0f:e2:fe:e8:f4:72:62:af:75:f7:1a:88:3e:04:92:64"
  }
]
```

```json
{"items":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ssh-key"},"type":"array"}
```

## Request examples

### cURL

```shell
curl --request DELETE \
  --url {protocol}://{hostname}/api/v3/setup/api/settings/authorized-keys \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data '{
  "authorized_key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgQCssTL/Vtu/ODLTj0VtZoRAbvf7uiv5997GyDq0MoAZUjb5jmA5wYe2/wF6sFuhiZTnZoF1ZtCHunPp0hM/GHrn6VySBhNncx14YO8FPt1CIhEeRMSEjUK9cY3xAbS365oXY8vnUHJsS9+1tr/2bx/+4NJfcUt/Ezf1OR/0LStQXw=="
}'
```