# Delete an app token

From **GitHub v3 REST API**.

`DELETE /applications/{client_id}/token`

OAuth application owners can revoke a single token for an OAuth application. You must use [Basic Authentication](https://docs.github.com/enterprise-server@3.0/rest/overview/other-authentication-methods#basic-authentication) when accessing this endpoint, using the OAuth application's `client_id` and `client_secret` as the username and password.

## Parameters

### `client_id`

- Location: path
- Required: true
- Type: `string`

The client ID of your GitHub app.

## Request body

- Required: true
### `application/json`

- Type: `object`

```json
{
  "access_token": "e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"
}
```

```json
{"properties":{"access_token":{"description":"The OAuth access token used to authenticate to the GitHub API.","type":"string"}},"required":["access_token"],"type":"object"}
```

## Responses

### `204`

Response

### `422`

Validation failed

### `application/json`

- Type: `object`

Validation Error

```json
{"description":"Validation Error","properties":{"documentation_url":{"type":"string"},"errors":{"items":{"properties":{"code":{"type":"string"},"field":{"type":"string"},"index":{"type":"integer"},"message":{"type":"string"},"resource":{"type":"string"},"value":{"oneOf":[{"nullable":true,"type":"string"},{"nullable":true,"type":"integer"},{"items":{"type":"string"},"nullable":true,"type":"array"}]}},"required":["code"],"type":"object"},"type":"array"},"message":{"type":"string"}},"required":["message","documentation_url"],"title":"Validation Error","type":"object"}
```

## Request examples

### cURL

```shell
curl --request DELETE \
  --url {protocol}://{hostname}/api/v3/applications/{client_id}/token \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "access_token": "e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"
}'
```