Delete a collection
Serverless indexes do not support collections.
# pip install "pinecone[grpc]"
from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone
pc = Pinecone(api_key='API_KEY')
pc.delete_collection("example-collection")// npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone'
const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
await pc.deleteCollection("example-collection");import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
public class DeleteCollectionExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
pc.deleteCollection("example-collection");
}
}PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -i -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/collections/example-collection" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2024-04"DELETE /collections/{collection_name}
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”collection_name(path, string, required) — The name of the collection.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”202— The collection has been successfully deleted.401404500