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DeleteMedia
Last updated: 2024-03-27 16:09:50
DeleteMedia
Last updated: 2024-03-27 16:09:50

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: vod.tencentcloudapi.com.

  • This API is used to delete a media file and its processed files, such as the transcoded video files, image sprites, screenshots, and videos for publishing on WeChat.
  • You can delete the original files, transcoded video files, and videos for publishing on WeChat, etc. of videos with specified IDs.
  • Note: after the original file of a video is deleted, you cannot transcode the video, publish it on WeChat, or perform other operations on it.

A maximum of 100 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: DeleteMedia.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2018-07-17.
Region No String Common Params. This parameter is not required.
FileId Yes String Unique media file ID.
SubAppId No Integer The VOD application ID. For customers who activate VOD service from December 25, 2023, if they want to access resources in a VOD application (whether it's the default application or a newly created one), they must fill in this field with the application ID.
DeleteParts.N No Array of MediaDeleteItem Content to be deleted. The default value is "[]", which indicates to delete the media file and all its corresponding files generated by video processing.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
RequestId String The unique request ID, generated by the server, will be returned for every request (if the request fails to reach the server for other reasons, the request will not obtain a RequestId). RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Deleting media files

This example shows you how to delete all files and information under a specified FileId.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DeleteMedia
&FileId=7447398156998994860
&SubAppId=1
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "requestId"
    }
}

Example2 Deleting transcoded videos

This example shows you how to delete all the transcoded video files under a specified FileId.
The original file as well as the files and information generated by transcoding, screencapture, and other task flows will be retained.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DeleteMedia
&FileId=7447398156998994860
&SubAppId=1
&DeleteParts.0.Type=TranscodeFiles
&DeleteParts.1.Type=WechatPublishFiles
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "requestId"
    }
}

Example3 Deleting certain transcoded videos

This example shows you how to delete only transcoded videos in certain definitions.
For example, you can delete both the transcoded HLS file in the definition of 230 and the HLS master playlist.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DeleteMedia
&FileId=7447398156998994860
&SubAppId=1
&DeleteParts.0.Type=TranscodeFiles
&DeleteParts.0.Definition=230
&DeleteParts.1.Type=TranscodeFiles
&DeleteParts.1.Definition=10000
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "requestId"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

Command Line Interface

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
FailedOperation Operation failed.
FailedOperation.InvalidVodUser The VOD service is not activated.
InternalError Internal error.
ResourceNotFound The resource does not exist.
UnauthorizedOperation Unauthorized operation.
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