The Scenario
You are a GDPR compliance officer. It is the last Friday of the month and you have received eight data erasure requests in the past thirty days. Each request names one or more Typeform responses by response ID and the form they came from.
Your Google Sheet has the form ID in column A and the response ID in column B, one row per response to be deleted. There are forty-three rows.
The responses must be purged by end of day today. The clock is running.
The slow version:
- You open Typeform's API documentation
- You write a curl command, test it on the first response, confirm it deleted
- You loop through forty-three rows by hand, editing the form ID and response ID each time
- You mistype a response ID on row nineteen and spend ten minutes figuring out which deletion failed
- You write a status note in a separate doc because there is no easy way to track which rows completed
- You finish at 6:45 PM and still have to write the compliance log.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads your deletion list and calls the Typeform API per row, so you are not writing curl commands forty-three times.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Delete all the Typeform response IDs listed in column B from the form ID in column A. Column A has the form ID (repeated per row) and column B has one response ID per row. Write "Deleted" or "Failed" into column C for each row after attempting the deletion. If any deletion fails, write the error message into column D.
SheetXAI iterates through all forty-three rows, calls the Typeform delete endpoint for each response, and writes the status back per row. You see exactly which deletions succeeded and which need follow-up, in the sheet, without switching contexts.
What You Get
A completed deletion log, right in the sheet:
- Column C — "Deleted" or "Failed" per row
- Column D — error message for any failed deletion, blank if successful
- Audit trail — the sheet itself is the log you send to the compliance team
You know immediately which rows failed. You do not have to manually reconcile a terminal output against a spreadsheet.
If any rows failed, ask SheetXAI to retry just the failed ones. You do not re-run the whole batch.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Erasure request sheets come from many sources. SheetXAI handles inconsistencies without you cleaning the sheet first.
When the sheet has duplicate response IDs
The same response ID appears twice because two requesters named the same submission. Deleting it twice would cause the second call to fail with a not-found error.
Delete all Typeform response IDs in column B from the form ID in column A. Before processing, deduplicate by response ID and only attempt each deletion once. Write "Deleted," "Duplicate — skipped," or "Failed" into column C.
When column A has the form title instead of the form ID
The person who built the sheet typed form names, not form IDs. You need to resolve names to IDs before deleting.
List all Typeform forms in my account to resolve the form names in column A to form IDs. Once you have the ID for each name, delete the corresponding response IDs in column B. Write the resolved form ID into a new column B-helper and the deletion status into column C.
When some response IDs are already gone
A previous partial deletion run left the sheet in a mixed state. Some responses were already deleted and will return a not-found error.
Delete all Typeform response IDs in column B from the form ID in column A. Treat a "not found" response as already deleted and write "Already deleted" in column C. Write "Deleted" for new deletions and "Failed" for actual errors.
When the batch comes from multiple sheets and needs a unified log
You have three sheets from three departments, each with their own form IDs and response IDs. You need one consolidated deletion log.
Combine the response deletion rows from the Q1 Erasure tab, Q2 Erasure tab, and Q3 Erasure tab into a single working list. Deduplicate by response ID. Delete each unique response from the correct form ID and write the status per row into a new tab called Deletion Log. Include the source tab name in a column called Source.
The pattern: describe the shape of your data and the status you need written back. SheetXAI handles the API calls and the logging in one go.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a deletion list, then ask SheetXAI to process it against your Typeform account. The Typeform integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. See also how to audit all your Typeform forms or the Typeform in Google Sheets overview.