DeleteVideo - ApsaraVideo VOD - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

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.

Debug

Authorization information

There is currently no authorization information disclosed in the API.

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: 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.	e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b**,e44ebf11oj984adbea8,73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54**

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object	The returned data.
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	E4EBD2BF-5EB0-4476-8829-9D94E1B1****
ForbiddenVideoIds	array	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 .	73ab850b4f6f4b6e91d24d81d54****
NonExistVideoIds	array	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.	e44ebf1147hdsa2d2adbea8b****

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 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.