Delete a Document

Example

The following example matches documents in the movies collection in which the title is "Twilight", deleting the first document matched:

coll := client.Database("sample_mflix").Collection("movies")
filter := bson.D{{"title", "Twilight"}}
// Deletes the first document that has a "title" value of "Twilight"
result, err := coll.DeleteOne(context.TODO(), filter)
// Prints a message if any errors occur during the operation
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}

View a fully runnable example.

Expected Result

After you run the full example, it removes the following document in the movies collection:

// result truncated
{ "_id": ObjectId("..."), ..., "title": "Twilight", ... }

For an example on how to find a document, see Find Documents.

Additional Information

To learn more about deleting documents, see Delete Documents.