REDCap now supports delete through API about pycap HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Steve!

Currently no plans but I'd of course welcome a PR. I think they finally revoked my vandy credentials from REDCap, so if you submit a PR it will likely fail CI :(

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The title of this issue is not yet OK :), the Pull Request is not yet handled.
Looked into files of the branch, 'delete_record' only deletes 1 record, so the README.rst should be changed to singular.
-OR-
Better still: the .py could be changed to allow multiple records to be deleted, because the API allows for records[0], records[1] etc.
I am a noob at GitHub and Python is not my forté, but here's my 3cts solution for deleting records.
This works, but i am not yet using records[1] etc, have to dig in a bit deeper :)
Also: a nice 'delete_records' should iterate over chunks of 1000 or so ...

dataRep = {
    'token': api_key,
    'content': 'report',
    'format': 'csv',
    'report_id': '16',
    'rawOrLabel': 'raw',
    'rawOrLabelHeaders': 'raw',
    'exportCheckboxLabel': 'false',
    'returnFormat': 'csv'
}
dataDel = {
    'token': api_key,
    'action': 'delete',
    'content': 'record',
    'records[0]': 'xxx'
}
rr = requests.post(api_url, data = dataRep, verify=False)
for rrl in rr.iter_lines(chunk_size=128,decode_unicode=True):
    if(rrl != 'record_id'):
        dataDel["records[0]"] = rrl.strip('\"')
        rd = requests.post(api_url, data = dataDel, verify=False)
rr = requests.post(api_url, data = dataRep, verify=False)
print(rr.text)

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See my comment in the PR for how to easily delete multiple records through the API: #77 (comment)
TL:DR Change records[0] to records[] in the body of the POST request to pass a list of records to be deleted

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