{
  "kind": "api_request",
  "api": "User Deletion API",
  "method": "POST",
  "endpoint": "https://analyticsadmin.googleapis.com/v1alpha/{name=properties/*}:submitUserDeletion",
  "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit",
  "identifier_union": [
    "userId",
    "clientId",
    "appInstanceId",
    "userProvidedData"
  ],
  "normalization": {
    "email": "lowercase; remove periods before @ for gmail.com/googlemail.com addresses; remove all spaces",
    "phone": "remove all non-digit characters; add + prefix"
  },
  "response": {
    "deletionRequestTime": "RFC 3339 timestamp, set to the time the request was received"
  },
  "guide": "user-deletion-api",
  "title": "Delete a user's data with the User Deletion API: one POST, one identifier, and the 63-day wait",
  "worked_example": {
    "request_body_example": {
      "userId": "user_12345"
    },
    "normalization": [
      {
        "field": "userProvidedData (email)",
        "supplied": "Jane.Doe@Gmail.com",
        "normalized": "janedoe@gmail.com"
      },
      {
        "field": "userProvidedData (phone)",
        "supplied": "+1 (416) 555-0132",
        "normalized": "+14165550132"
      }
    ],
    "timeline_recomputed": {
      "request_received": "2026-11-11",
      "stops_displaying_within_24h_by": "2026-11-12",
      "permanently_removed_within_63d_by": "2027-01-13"
    }
  },
  "verification": "Figures recomputed in Python 3 with decimal arithmetic and date arithmetic, 2026-11-11. No live GA4 run."
}