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Hi Wix Support Team,

I’m faced with an issue with the Wix API and would appreciate your help understanding the expected behavior.

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What I’m trying to do
When a site is moved to trash or deleted, any API request (including OAuth token requests) now returns:

{
  "error": "unknown_error"
}

HTTP Status: 400 Bad Request

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Previous behavior:
A few months ago, the same scenario returned a clear and descriptive error:

  • "The requested meta-site was not found"
  • or error code: ERROR_SITE_NOT_FOUND_CODE

This allowed us to reliably detect when a site had been trashed or deleted.

Current behavior:
The generic unknown_error makes it impossible to distinguish between:

  1. A site that has been moved to trash or permanently deleted
  2. A real unexpected server-side error

My question:
Could you clarify how we are supposed to detect that a site has been moved to trash or deleted?

  • Is unknown_error now the intended response for this case?
  • Was the previous SITE_NOT_FOUND error removed intentionally?
  • Is there a recommended approach — such as a specific error code, a webhook, or a status field in the Site object — to handle this scenario reliably?

Thank you for your time!

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