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.
Authorization information
The following table is the authorization information corresponding to the API, which can be found in the RAM permission policy statement.Action
Used in the element to grant the RAM user or RAM role permission to call this API. The specific instructions are as follows:
- 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 keyword: refers to the condition keyword defined by the cloud product itself.
- 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.
Operate | access level | Resource type | conditional keyword | Association operation |
---|---|---|---|---|
vod:DeleteVideo | Write |
|
| without |
vod:DeleteVideo | Write |
|
| without |
Request parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
VideoIds | string | Yes | 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:
| e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****,e44ebf11oj984adbea8****,73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54**** |
Response parameters
Example
Normal return example
JSON
Format
{
"RequestId": "E4EBD2BF-5EB0-4476-8829-9D94E1B1****",
"ForbiddenVideoIds": [
"73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****"
],
"NonExistVideoIds": [
"e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****"
]
}
Error codes
For a list of error codes, visit the API error center.
Common errors
The following table describes the common errors that this operation can return.
Error code | Error message | HTTP status code | Description |
---|---|---|---|
VideoIdsExceededMax | The VideoIds exceeded maximum. | 400 | The error message returned because the list of video IDs exceeds the maximum length. |
InvalidVideo.NotFound | The video does not exist. | 404 | The error message returned because the video does not exist. |
DeleteVideoFailed | Deleting video has failed due to some unknown error. | 503 | The error message returned because the system failed to delete the video. Try again later. |