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# Remove a source from a post engagement monitor

> Stop following one LinkedIn company page or profile. Rate limit: 120 requests per fixed minute per API key, shared by all post engagement monitor endpoints.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Post engagement monitoring requires a **V2 workspace API key**. Legacy V1 API keys are not supported by these endpoints. Monitors and their credits belong to the V2 workspace associated with the key.

Remove one source by `source_id`. The response returns the source with `status: "removed"`.

Removing a source restarts coverage for the monitor; delivered engagers and the results table are kept. A monitor needs at least one source: removing the last one returns `422 source_required`. A source the monitor does not follow returns `404 source_not_found`.

## Next step

Use [Add sources](https://docs.airscale.io/api-reference/post-engagement-monitors/sources/add.md) to follow a replacement.


## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi.json DELETE /v1/post-engagement-monitors/{monitor_id}/sources/{source_id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Airscale Public API
  version: '2026-09-11'
  description: >-
    Search, enrich, resolve public business data, and monitor job changes with
    Airscale.
  x-airscale-source-repository: ViceScale/airscale-code
  x-airscale-source-sha: 1de19e1b70a052a4b8d9c2075021a7e5e7a94d51
servers:
  - url: https://api.airscale.io
    description: Production
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Search and discovery
    description: Search people, companies, and the web.
  - name: Contact data
    description: Find professional and personal contact data.
  - name: Profiles and reverse lookup
    description: Extract profiles or resolve a person from known contact data.
  - name: Post engagement
    description: Retrieve and enrich people who liked or commented on LinkedIn posts.
  - name: LinkedIn content
    description: >-
      Search LinkedIn posts, read profile and company feeds, and retrieve
      profile comments and comment reactions.
  - name: Job change monitoring
    description: Track LinkedIn profiles and receive job-change events.
  - name: New hire monitoring
    description: Watch companies or the market for people who start a matching role.
  - name: Post engagement monitoring
    description: >-
      Follow LinkedIn company pages and profiles and receive the people who
      engage with their posts.
  - name: Account
    description: Inspect workspace account state.
  - name: Miscellaneous
    description: >-
      Find website technologies and check WhatsApp availability, Meta ads, and
      email deliverability.
paths:
  /v1/post-engagement-monitors/{monitor_id}/sources/{source_id}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Post engagement monitoring
      summary: Remove a source from a monitor
      description: >-
        Stops following one source. Removing a source restarts coverage for the
        monitor; delivered engagers and the results table are kept. A monitor
        keeps at least one source. Requires a V2 workspace API key. Legacy V1
        API keys are not supported. Monitors and their credits belong to the V2
        workspace.
      operationId: removePostEngagementMonitorSource
      parameters:
        - name: monitor_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
          example: 71111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111
        - name: source_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
          example: 72222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The removed source.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: false
                required:
                  - source
                properties:
                  source:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/PostEngagementSource'
              examples:
                success:
                  summary: Successful response
                  value:
                    source:
                      id: 72222223-2222-4222-8222-222222222223
                      linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-person
                      kind: profile
                      status: removed
                      last_checked_at: '2026-11-02T09:00:00.000Z'
                      last_error: null
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MonitorUnauthorized'
        '404':
          description: >-
            monitor_not_found, or source_not_found when the monitor does not
            follow this source.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MonitorApiError'
              examples:
                error:
                  summary: Error response
                  value:
                    error:
                      code: monitor_not_found
                      message: Monitor not found
        '422':
          description: 'source_required: the source is the monitor''s last one.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MonitorApiError'
        '429':
          description: >-
            The API key has exceeded 120 requests in the current minute across
            post engagement monitor endpoints. Wait for the Retry-After seconds
            before retrying.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
              examples:
                error:
                  summary: Error response
                  value:
                    error: Too Many Requests
                    message: 'Rate limit exceeded: 120 requests per minute'
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
              schema:
                type: string
              example: '60'
        '503':
          description: >-
            service_unavailable: post engagement monitoring is temporarily
            unavailable.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MonitorApiError'
components:
  schemas:
    PostEngagementSource:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - id
        - linkedin_url
        - kind
        - status
        - last_checked_at
        - last_error
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        linkedin_url:
          type: string
        kind:
          type: string
          enum:
            - company
            - profile
            - post
          description: >-
            The API accepts company and profile sources only; post appears on
            single-post sources added in the Airscale app.
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - pending
            - monitoring
            - removed
          description: >-
            pending until the source's first check, then monitoring. removed
            appears only in a remove response.
        last_checked_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
        last_error:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
    MonitorApiError:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: false
          required:
            - code
            - message
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
    Error:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  responses:
    MonitorUnauthorized:
      description: >-
        A missing Bearer token returns
        {"error":"Unauthorized","message":"Missing or invalid bearer token"}. An
        unknown API key returns invalid_api_key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            oneOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/MonitorApiError'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          examples:
            invalidKey:
              summary: Unknown API key
              value:
                error:
                  code: invalid_api_key
                  message: The API key is not valid
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key
      description: >-
        Use an Airscale workspace API key. Never expose the key in client-side
        code.

````

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