Object Storage Service:Delete objects

Usage notes

• In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS by using other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint For more information about the regions and endpoints supported by OSS, see Regions and endpoints.
• In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or STS, see Initialization.
• To delete an object, you must have the oss:DeleteObject permission. For more information, see Attach a custom policy to a RAM user.

Delete a single object

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete the exampleobject.txt object from the examplebucket bucket:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2

# The AccessKey pair of an Alibaba Cloud account has permissions on all API operations. Using these credentials to perform operations in OSS is a high-risk operation. We recommend that you use a RAM user to call API operations or perform routine O&M. To create a RAM user, log on to the RAM console. 
auth = oss2.Auth('yourAccessKeyId', 'yourAccessKeySecret')
# Specify the endpoint of the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. 
# Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, 'https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com', 'examplebucket')

# Delete the object. 
# Set yourObjectName to the full path of the object that you want to delete. Do not include the bucket name in the full path. Example: exampledir/exampleobject.txt. 
# To delete a directory, set yourObjectName to the directory name. If the directory contains objects, you must delete all objects from the directory before you can delete the directory. 
bucket.delete_object('exampledir/exampleobject.txt')            

Delete multiple objects at a time

You can delete up to 1,000 objects at a time. You can delete multiple specified objects, objects whose names contain a specified prefix, or a specified directory and all objects in the directory.

You can also configure lifecycle rules to automatically delete objects. For more information, see Lifecycle rules based on the last modified time.

Delete multiple objects with specified names

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete multiple objects with specified names:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2

# The AccessKey pair of an Alibaba Cloud account has permissions on all API operations. Using these credentials to perform operations in OSS is a high-risk operation. We recommend that you use a RAM user to call API operations or perform routine O&M. To create a RAM user, log on to the RAM console. 
auth = oss2.Auth('yourAccessKeyId', 'yourAccessKeySecret')
# Specify the endpoint of the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. 
# Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, 'https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com', 'examplebucket')

# Delete three objects at a time. You can delete up to 1,000 objects at a time. 
# Specify the full paths of the three objects that you want to delete. Do not include the bucket name in the full paths. 
result = bucket.batch_delete_objects(['exampleobject1.jpg', 'testobject2.png', 'destobject3.txt'])
# Show the names of the deleted objects. 
print('\n'.join(result.deleted_keys))            

Delete multiple objects with a specified object name prefix or in a specified directory

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete multiple objects with a specified name prefix and how to delete a specified directory and all objects in the directory.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2
# The AccessKey pair of an Alibaba Cloud account has permissions on all API operations. Using these credentials to perform operations in OSS is a high-risk operation. We recommend that you use a RAM user to call API operations or perform routine O&M. To create a RAM user, log on to the RAM console. 
auth = oss2.Auth('yourAccessKeyId', 'yourAccessKeySecret')
# Specify the endpoint of the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. 
# Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, 'https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com', 'examplebucket')
# Specify the prefix of the names of the objects that you want to delete. If you want to delete all objects whose names contain the src prefix, set the prefix to src. After you set the prefix to src, all non-directory objects whose names contain the src prefix, the src directory, and all objects in the src directory are deleted. 
prefix = 'src'
# If you want to delete only the src directory and all objects in the directory, set the prefix to src/. 
# prefix = 'src/'

# Delete multiple objects. 
for obj in oss2.ObjectIterator(bucket, prefix=prefix):
    bucket.delete_object(obj.key)

References

• For the complete sample code for deleting a single object or multiple objects at a time, visit GitHub.
• For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete a single object, see DeleteObject.
• For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete multiple objects at a time, see DeleteMultipleObjects.