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id: c9a6ba57-6a64-4637-9533-97e02364e16f
title: removeMember
slug: /node/reference/video/room-session/remove-member
description: removeMember method for the RoomSession class.
max-toc-depth: 3
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[roomsession-41]: /docs/server-sdk/v4/node/reference/video/room-session

### removeMember

* **removeMember**(`params`): `Promise<void>`

Removes a specific participant from the room.

#### Parameters

<ParamField path="params" type="object" required>
  Object containing the parameters of the method.
</ParamField>

<Indent>
  <ParamField path="memberId" type="string" required>
    ID of the member to remove.
  </ParamField>
</Indent>

#### Returns

`Promise<void>`

#### Example

In this example, we wait for a room to start and then remove the second member
that joins the room after 5 seconds. This example assumes that there is a [`RoomSession`][roomsession-41]
already active and that members are joining the room.

```js
import { SignalWire } from "@signalwire/realtime-api";

// Initialize the SignalWire client
const client = await SignalWire({ project: "ProjectID Here", token: "Token Here" })

// Access the video client from the main client
const videoClient = client.video;

// Setup listener for when a room starts
await videoClient.listen({
  onRoomStarted: async (roomsession) => {
    console.log("Room started", roomsession.displayName);

    // listen for when new participants join the room
    roomsession.listen({
      onMemberJoined: async (member) => {
        console.log("Member joined", member.name);

        // remove the member from the room after 5 seconds

        setTimeout(async () => {
          console.log("Removing member", member.name);
          roomsession.removeMember({
            memberId: member.id,
          });
        }, 5000);
      },
    });
  }
});
```