POST favorites/destroy
post-favorites-destroy

POST favorites/destroy

Note: favorites are now known as likes.

Unfavorites (un-likes) the Tweet specified in the ID parameter as the authenticating user. Returns the un-liked Tweet when successful.

The process invoked by this method is asynchronous. The immediately returned Tweet object may not indicate the resultant favorited status of the Tweet. A 200 OK response from this method will indicate whether the intended action was successful or not.

Resource URL

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/destroy.json

Resource Information

Response formats JSON
Requires authentication? Yes (user context only)
Rate limited? Yes

Parameters

Name Required Description Default Value Example
id required The numerical ID of the Tweet to un-like 123
include_entities optional The entities node will be omitted when set to false . false

Example Request

POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/destroy.json?id=1050118621198921728

Example Response

{
  "created_at": "Wed Oct 10 20:19:24 +0000 2018",
  "id": 1050118621198921728,
  "id_str": "1050118621198921728",
  "text": "To make room for more expression, we will now count all emojis as equal—including those with gender‍‍‍ and skin t… https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
  "truncated": true,
  "entities": {
    "hashtags": [],
    "symbols": [],
    "user_mentions": [],
    "urls": [
      {
        "url": "https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
        "expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050118621198921728",
        "display_url": "twitter.com/i/web/status/1…",
        "indices": [
          117,
          140
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow">Twitter Web Client</a>",
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 6253282,
    "id_str": "6253282",
    "name": "Twitter API",
    "screen_name": "TwitterAPI",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "description": "The Real Twitter API. Tweets about API changes, service issues and our Developer Platform. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
    "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
    "entities": {
      "url": {
        "urls": [
          {
            "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
            "expanded_url": "https://developer.twitter.com",
            "display_url": "developer.twitter.com",
            "indices": [
              0,
              23
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "description": {
        "urls": []
      }
    },
    "protected": false,
    "followers_count": 6128663,
    "friends_count": 12,
    "listed_count": 12900,
    "created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
    "favourites_count": 32,
    "utc_offset": null,
    "time_zone": null,
    "geo_enabled": null,
    "verified": true,
    "statuses_count": 3659,
    "lang": "null",
    "contributors_enabled": null,
    "is_translator": null,
    "is_translation_enabled": null,
    "profile_background_color": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url_https": "null",
    "profile_background_tile": nulll,
    "profile_image_url": "null",
    "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/942858479592554497/BbazLO9L_normal.jpg",
    "profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/6253282/1497491515",
    "profile_link_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_border_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "null",
    "profile_text_color": "null",
    "profile_use_background_image": null,
    "has_extended_profile": null,
    "default_profile": false,
    "default_profile_image": false,
    "following": nul,
    "follow_request_sent": null,
    "notifications": null,
    "translator_type": "null"
  },
  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": null,
  "contributors": null,
  "is_quote_status": false,
  "retweet_count": 161,
  "favorite_count": 296,
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "possibly_sensitive": false,
  "possibly_sensitive_appealable": false,
  "lang": "en"
}