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ApsaraVideo VOD:DeleteVideo

Last Updated:Mar 03, 2024

Deletes one or more videos at a time, including their mezzanine files, transcoded stream files, and thumbnail snapshots.

Operation description

  • This operation physically deletes videos. Deleted videos cannot be recovered. Exercise caution when you call this operation.
  • You can call this operation to delete multiple videos at a time.
  • When you delete a video, its source file, transcoded stream file, and thumbnail screenshot are also deleted. However, the Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) cache is not refreshed simultaneously. You can use the refresh feature in the ApsaraVideo VOD console to clear garbage data on CDN nodes. For more information, see Refresh and prefetch.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
vod:DeleteVideoWrite
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none
vod:DeleteVideoWrite
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
VideoIdsstringYes

The list of video IDs. Separate multiple IDs with commas (,). A maximum of 20 IDs can be specified. You can obtain a video ID in one of the following ways:

  • If the video is uploaded by using the ApsaraVideo VOD console, log on to the console and choose Media Files > Audio/Video to view the ID of the video.
  • If the video is uploaded by calling the CreateUploadVideo operation, the video ID is the VideoId value in the response.
  • You can also call the SearchMedia operation to obtain the video ID, which is the VideoId value in the response.
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Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The returned data.

RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

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ForbiddenVideoIdsarray

The IDs of the videos that cannot be deleted.

Note Generally, videos cannot be deleted if you do not have the required permissions .
string

The IDs of the videos that cannot be deleted.

Note Generally, videos cannot be deleted if you do not have the required permissions .
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NonExistVideoIdsarray

The IDs of the videos that do not exist.

Note If the list of videos to be deleted contains one or more videos that do not exist, the IDs of these non-existing videos are returned. If none of the videos in the list exists, a 404 error is returned.
string

The IDs of the videos that do not exist.

Note If the list of videos to be deleted contains one or more videos that do not exist, the IDs of these non-existing videos are returned. If none of the videos in the list exists, a 404 error is returned.
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Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "E4EBD2BF-5EB0-4476-8829-9D94E1B1****",
  "ForbiddenVideoIds": [
    "73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****"
  ],
  "NonExistVideoIds": [
    "e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****"
  ]
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Common errors

The following table describes the common errors that this operation can return.

Error codeError messageHTTP status codeDescription
VideoIdsExceededMaxThe VideoIds exceeded maximum.400The error message returned because the list of video IDs exceeds the maximum length.
InvalidVideo.NotFoundThe video does not exist.404The error message returned because the video does not exist.
DeleteVideoFailedDeleting video has failed due to some unknown error.503The error message returned because the system failed to delete the video. Try again later.