deleteTemplate.md

Delete Template

This guide will walk you through steps of deleting existing template from your account using the Python library.

Required Access Level: ModifyTemplates

What's a template?

When using Elastic Email you send emails to your contacts. A single template is a body of email prepared and saved under given name. Till it's deleted it can be reused to send any number of emails.

Preparation

Install Python 3.

Install ElasticEmail library.

Eg. run in terminal pip install ElasticEmail to install from PyPi repository.

Create a new Python file snippet.py and open it in editor of your preference eg. PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/)

Let's dig into the code

Put the below code to your file.

Load libraries using below code:

import ElasticEmail
from ElasticEmail.apis.tags import templates_api

Generate and use your API key (remember to check a required access level).

Defining the host is optional and defaults to https://api.elasticemail.com/v4

configuration = ElasticEmail.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

Pass configuration to an api client and make it instance available under api_client name:

with ElasticEmail.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:

Create an instance of TemplatesApi that will be used to delete existing template from your account.

    api_instance = templates_api.TemplatesApi(api_client)

To delete a template you need to specfiy it's name:

Find out more by checking our API's documentation: https://elasticemail.com/developers/api-documentation/rest-api#operation/templatesByNameDelete

    name = "My template"

Use try & except block to call templates_by_name_delete method from the API to delete a template:

    try:
        api_instance.templates_by_name_delete({'name': name})
        print("Template deleted.")
    except ElasticEmail.ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling TemplatesApi->templates_by_name_delete: %s\n" % e)

The whole code to copy and paste:

import ElasticEmail
from ElasticEmail.apis.tags import templates_api

configuration = ElasticEmail.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

with ElasticEmail.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = templates_api.TemplatesApi(api_client)

    name = "My template"

    try:
        api_instance.templates_by_name_delete({'name': name})
        print("Template deleted.")
    except ElasticEmail.ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling TemplatesApi->templates_by_name_delete: %s\n" % e)

Run the code

python3 snippet.py