How to delete a GitHub repo using the API

Question

I am getting familiar with the GitHub API http://developer.github.com/v3/ I am trying things out both with RESTClient plugin for Firefox and with curl command line tool.

Answer 1

To delete a GitHub repo:

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  -H "Authorization: token ${token}" \
   https://api.github.com/repos/${username}/${reponame}

Define or replace ${token}, ${username}, and ${reponame}. The token must have access to the delete_repo scope.