The Scenario
You are a data privacy engineer. This month your team received 95 GDPR deletion requests. The Amplitude user IDs are in a Google Sheet that your legal team put together. Amplitude's API supports bulk deletion, but the deletion requests have to be submitted correctly, and each one returns a job ID that needs to be logged for compliance purposes.
If you submit them one by one through Amplitude's UI, that is 95 manual submissions. If you submit them by hand via the API, you need to write the API calls yourself.
The slow version:
- Open Amplitude, find the User Privacy API section in the docs
- Write a script or use Postman to send deletion requests
- Log each job ID into the sheet manually after each call
- Handle any errors row by row
- Two hours of engineering time for what should be a five-minute compliance task.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI connects to Amplitude's User Privacy API and can submit bulk deletion requests directly from your sheet, logging the returned job IDs inline.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Take the Amplitude user IDs in column A (all 95 rows) and submit a bulk deletion request to Amplitude's User Privacy API. Write the returned deletion job ID into column B and the request status into column C for each row.
SheetXAI reads column A, submits all 95 deletion requests, and logs the job IDs and status values back into the sheet. Your compliance record is complete in one pass.
What You Get
A logged deletion record with three columns:
- Column A — Amplitude user IDs (your input, unchanged)
- Column B — Amplitude deletion job IDs returned by the API
- Column C — request status for each submission (accepted, failed, etc.)
The job IDs are your audit trail. If legal or a regulator asks whether a specific user was deleted, column B has the Amplitude job ID to reference. Column C surfaces any failures immediately so you can resubmit rather than discover the problem six months later.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
GDPR deletion request sheets are rarely clean. SheetXAI handles validation and logging in the same prompt.
When the column has duplicates
A user appears twice because the request came in through two different channels.
Deduplicate the Amplitude user IDs in column A, keeping only unique values. Then submit a bulk deletion request to Amplitude for the deduplicated list. Log the job ID into column B and status into column C. Write the number of duplicates removed into cell E1.
When some rows have blank or non-numeric user IDs
A few rows in column A are empty or contain placeholder values from the legal export.
Filter column A to include only rows where the user ID is a non-empty value. Skip rows where column A is blank or contains non-numeric text. Submit Amplitude deletion requests for the valid user IDs. Log job ID in column B and status in column C. Write "SKIPPED — invalid ID" in columns B and C for any row that was excluded.
When the sheet has multiple identifier types and you need to match them to Amplitude IDs first
Your legal team's sheet has email addresses, not Amplitude user IDs. You need to resolve emails to Amplitude IDs before submitting deletion requests.
For each email address in column A, look up the corresponding Amplitude user ID using Amplitude's user lookup API and write the Amplitude user ID into column B. Then submit a GDPR deletion request to Amplitude for each resolved user ID and write the returned job ID into column C and status into column D.
When you need deduplication, validation, submission, logging, and a compliance summary all in one pass
Legal needs a one-page record of the submission run.
Deduplicate the user IDs in column A. Filter out any blank or non-numeric rows. Submit Amplitude GDPR deletion requests for all valid, unique user IDs. Log job ID in column B and status in column C. Write "SKIPPED" in columns B and C for excluded rows. Then write a compliance summary in cell E1 listing: total rows received, total submitted, total failed, total skipped.
The pattern: validation, deduplication, API submission, and compliance logging all happen in one prompt. The legal team gets a complete audit record without you writing a single API call by hand.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a list of Amplitude user IDs, then ask it to submit bulk GDPR deletion requests and log the job IDs. The Amplitude integration is included in every plan. For related workflows, see how to export a cohort for enrichment or the Amplitude in Google Sheets overview.