Deleting Videos Using VdoCipher API

Videos can be deleted using the delete API, by sending an HTTP DELETE request to https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos with the videoID as query. You can delete multiple videos by separating the videoIDs by comma in the HTTP query, as follows:

'https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos?videos={{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}

The playback of videos is often cached by multiple cache servers and it is possible for a video to keep playing for a short while even after it is deleted from account.

Deleting a video will stop a video from counting towards the storage accounting.

Sample Code for Video Deletion

The sample API Secret Key is a1b2c3d4e5. videoIDs are written as {{videoID1}} and {{videoID2}}. Replace these with the actual videoIDs.

CURL

curl -X DELETE \
  'https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos?videos={{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

NODE

var request = require('request');

var options = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  url: 'https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos',
  qs: {videos: '{{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}'},
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5',
  },
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(body);
});

PHP

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos?videos={{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Accept: application/json",
    "Authorization: Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5",
    "Content-Type: application/json",
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

C#

var client = new RestClient("https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos?videos={{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.DELETE);
request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

Python

import requests

url = "https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos"
querystring = {"videos":"{{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}"}

headers = {
    'Authorization': "Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5",
    'Content-Type': "application/json",
    'Accept': "application/json"
    }

response = requests.request("DELETE", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos?videos={{videoID1}},{{videoID2}}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body