> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.usenotra.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete a site author > Removes the author from blog.json. Deleting one that is live or credited on Notra posts needs force=true; those posts then show the id as a plain name. Changes are saved as unpublished Design changes to the site's blog.json, the same draft the dashboard's Design tab shows, and go live when published with POST /v1/sites/{siteId}/publish or from the dashboard. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.usenotra.com/openapi.json delete /v1/sites/{siteId}/authors/{authorId} openapi: 3.1.1 info: title: Notra API version: 1.0.0 description: >- OpenAPI schema for Notra content endpoints. Use GET /v1/status for public reachability. Error responses include recovery guidance. Breaking changes ship under a new major path; deprecated operations send Deprecation and Sunset headers at least 90 days before removal. servers: - url: https://api.usenotra.com description: Production - url: https://demo-api.usenotra.com description: >- Sandbox with sample data. Get a free sandbox key at demo.usenotra.com, no signup needed security: - BearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Webhooks description: Manage outbound webhook subscriptions and delivery history. - name: Discovery description: Public API status and authenticated workspace discovery. - name: Content description: >- Manage posts, brand identities, and GitHub or Linear integrations, and queue content generation. Organization is inferred from the API key (identity.externalId). - name: Schedules description: >- Manage scheduled content generation. Organization is inferred from the API key (identity.externalId). - name: Event Triggers description: >- Manage event-based content generation triggered by GitHub webhooks. Organization is inferred from the API key (identity.externalId). - name: Chats description: >- Manage chat sessions. Organization is inferred from the API key (identity.externalId). - name: Skills description: >- Manage reusable writing skills. Organization is inferred from the API key (identity.externalId). - name: Feedback description: >- Collect and triage feedback submitted by AI agents. Agents post to the organization's feedback URL without credentials; reading and triage require an API key with feedback.read or feedback.write. - name: GEO description: >- Manage generative engine optimization: projects, tracking settings, prompts, prompt sequences, competitors, scans, visibility reads, content gaps and briefs, agent readiness and AI traffic. Project-scoped endpoints require the GEO plan entitlement in addition to their scope; organization-level ingest endpoints require only the traffic scope. - name: Sites description: >- Notra Sites are hosted blogs and changelogs built from a GitHub repository. Read Sites and their deployments, start builds, preview posts on a Site, open pull requests that publish posts to it, and manage blog.json authors and the author page through staged Design changes. Domains, settings, rollbacks and deletion stay in the dashboard. externalDocs: description: Notra API versioning and deprecation policy url: https://www.usenotra.com/docs/api/versioning paths: /v1/sites/{siteId}/authors/{authorId}: delete: tags: - Sites summary: Delete a site author description: >- Removes the author from blog.json. Deleting one that is live or credited on Notra posts needs force=true; those posts then show the id as a plain name. Changes are saved as unpublished Design changes to the site's blog.json, the same draft the dashboard's Design tab shows, and go live when published with POST /v1/sites/{siteId}/publish or from the dashboard. operationId: deleteSiteAuthor parameters: - schema: type: string minLength: 1 pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,100}$ example: site_8f2kq1 required: true in: path name: siteId - schema: type: string pattern: ^[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,38}[a-z0-9])?$ description: >- The author's id in blog.json. Posts name the author with it and its author page lives at {blogMount}/author/{authorId}. example: jane-doe required: true description: >- The author's id in blog.json. Posts name the author with it and its author page lives at {blogMount}/author/{authorId}. in: path name: authorId - schema: type: string enum: - 'true' - 'false' description: >- Set to true to delete an author that is live or credited on Notra posts. required: false description: >- Set to true to delete an author that is live or credited on Notra posts. in: query name: force responses: '200': description: Author removed as an unpublished change content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SiteAuthors' '400': description: Invalid path params or request body content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '401': description: Missing or invalid API key content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '403': description: Forbidden content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '404': description: Site or author not found content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '409': description: >- The site has no blog, blog.json can't be edited as it is, another editor changed it meanwhile, or the author is in use (code SITE_AUTHOR_IN_USE) content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '429': description: >- Rate limit exceeded. This endpoint allows 60 requests per 1 minute per API key. headers: RateLimit-Limit: description: Maximum requests allowed in the current window. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Remaining: description: Requests remaining in the current window. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Reset: description: Seconds until the current window resets. schema: type: integer Retry-After: description: Seconds the client should wait before retrying. schema: type: integer content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitErrorResponse' '503': description: Notra Sites or authentication is unavailable content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '504': description: The site's repository didn't answer in time content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' components: schemas: SiteAuthors: type: object properties: site: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: string required: - id - name authors: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SiteAuthor' description: Authors in blog.json order, including unpublished changes. authorPage: type: string enum: - inline - stacked description: >- Layout of every author page: inline puts the avatar beside the name, stacked puts it above. example: inline hasUnpublishedChanges: type: boolean description: >- blog.json has staged Design changes that are not live yet. Publish them with POST /v1/sites/{siteId}/publish or from the dashboard. example: true required: - site - authors - authorPage - hasUnpublishedChanges ErrorResponse: type: object properties: error: type: string code: type: string recovery: type: string required: - error RateLimitErrorResponse: type: object properties: error: type: string limit: type: integer minimum: 1 remaining: type: integer minimum: 0 reset: type: integer required: - error - limit - remaining - reset SiteAuthor: type: object properties: id: type: string example: jane-doe ref: type: string description: >- Pass this in metadata.authorIds of PATCH /v1/posts/{postId} to credit the author on a blog post that publishes to this site. example: site:jane-doe name: type: string example: Jane Doe title: type: - string - 'null' example: Head of Product bio: type: - string - 'null' avatar: type: - string - 'null' description: >- As written in blog.json: a site path such as /images/jane.png or an https URL. example: /images/jane.png avatarUrl: type: - string - 'null' description: The avatar as a full URL on the live site. example: https://acme.notra.site/blog/images/jane.png url: type: - string - 'null' example: https://janedoe.dev x: type: - string - 'null' example: https://x.com/janedoe linkedin: type: - string - 'null' github: type: - string - 'null' youtube: type: - string - 'null' bluesky: type: - string - 'null' mastodon: type: - string - 'null' threads: type: - string - 'null' instagram: type: - string - 'null' live: type: boolean description: >- The author is in the published blog.json. False while it only exists in unpublished changes. example: true posts: type: integer description: Notra blog posts on this site that credit the author. example: 3 required: - id - ref - name - title - bio - avatar - avatarUrl - url - x - linkedin - github - youtube - bluesky - mastodon - threads - instagram - live - posts securitySchemes: BearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: API Key description: >- Send your API key in the Authorization header as Bearer API_KEY. Account API keys work in every workspace you belong to: send X-Notra-Organization-Id with the workspace id or slug to choose one. Workspace endpoints require it when you belong to more than one workspace; GET /v1/me/workspaces works without it. Organization keys only accept their own workspace there. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.