All Products
Search
Document Center

ApsaraVideo VOD:DeleteVideo

Last Updated:Dec 09, 2025

Deletes a complete video, including its source file, transcoded streams, and thumbnails.

Operation description

Usage notes

  • This operation physically deletes the video. The video cannot be recovered. Proceed with caution.

  • This operation supports batch deletion.

  • When you delete a video, its source file, transcoded streams, and thumbnails are also deleted. However, the CDN cache is not purged at the same time. If needed, you can use the purge feature in the ApsaraVideo VOD console to remove obsolete data from CDN nodes. For more information, see Refresh and prefetch.

QPS limit

The queries per second (QPS) limit for a single user is 30. If you exceed this limit, API calls are throttled. This may affect your business. We recommend that you call this API operation at a reasonable rate. For more information, see QPS limits.

Try it now

Try this API in OpenAPI Explorer, no manual signing needed. Successful calls auto-generate SDK code matching your parameters. Download it with built-in credential security for local usage.

Test

RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

vod:DeleteVideo

delete

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

VideoIds

string

No

A list of video IDs. You can specify one or more video IDs. Separate multiple IDs with commas (,). You can specify a maximum of 20 IDs. You can obtain video IDs in the following ways:

  • For videos that are uploaded using the console, log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console and choose Media Files > Audio/Video to view the video IDs.

  • If you upload a video by calling the CreateUploadVideo operation, the video ID is the value of the VideoId parameter in the response.

  • After a video is uploaded, you can call the SearchMedia operation to query the video ID. The video ID is the value of the VideoId parameter in the response.

e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****,e44ebf11oj984adbea8****,73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****

ReferenceIds

string

No

A list of custom IDs. You can specify one or more custom IDs. Separate multiple IDs with commas (,). You can specify a maximum of 20 IDs.

123-123,1234-1234

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The response.

RequestId

string

The request ID.

E4EBD2BF-5EB0-4476-8829-9D94E1B1****

ForbiddenVideoIds

array

A list of video IDs for which the operation is forbidden.

Note

This is usually because you do not have the required permissions.

string

A list of video IDs for which the operation is forbidden.

Note

This is usually because you do not have the required permissions.

73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****

NonExistVideoIds

array

A list of video IDs that do not exist.

string

A list of video IDs that do not exist.

Note

If some of the video IDs that you want to delete do not exist, the IDs of these videos are returned. If all the video IDs that you want to delete do not exist, a 404 error is reported.

e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****

NonExistReferenceIds

array

A list of custom IDs that do not exist.

string

A list of custom IDs that do not exist.

123-123

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "E4EBD2BF-5EB0-4476-8829-9D94E1B1****",
  "ForbiddenVideoIds": [
    "73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****"
  ],
  "NonExistVideoIds": [
    "e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****"
  ],
  "NonExistReferenceIds": [
    "123-123"
  ]
}

Error codes

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.