> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.chatbees.ai/chatbees/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.chatbees.ai/chatbees/api-references/crawl-operations/delete-crawl.md).

# Delete Crawl

Delete the index for the crawled pages of the root\_url, if you don't need the crawled results anymore.

{% hint style="info" %}
If you re-crawl the root\_url, please remember to call delete\_crawl() before index\_crawl() to cleanup the previously indexed pages from the collection.
{% endhint %}

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="HTTP" %}

```
POST /docs/delete_crawl HTTP/1.1
Api-Key: my_api_key
Content-Type: application/json
Host: my_account_id.us-west-2.aws.chatbees.ai

{
  "namespace_name": "string",
  "collection_name": "string",
  "root_url": "string"
}

Response:
{}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```
import chatbees as cb

# Configure API key
cb.init(api_key="my_api_key", account_id="my_account_id")

col = cb.collection('llm_research')

col.delete_crawl(root_url)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}