Deleting video with XMLHTTP request?

Pavel Liser

February 13, 2019 03:49

So we are using XMLHTTP POST request to upload videos to Cloudinary.

Is it possible to use XMLHTTP to delete videos from Cloudinary too?

Thank you in advance!

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  Aditi Madan

  February 14, 2019 21:28

  Hi Pavel,

  You can do a delete request but delete also requires account's API secret which should not be revealed on client-side. If you have a backend where you can add the API key and secret and just pass the other information from client-side then that should work.

  You can test by this curl command:

  curl -X DELETE ‘https://<api_key>:<api_secret>@api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<cloud_name>/resources/image/upload?public_ids[]=<public_id>’

  Thanks,
  Aditi

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  Pavel Liser

  February 15, 2019 08:11

  Hi Aditi,

  Thank you kindly for the response.

  So would it look something like this:

  xmlhttprequest.open("DELETE", `https://<our api key>:<our api secret>@api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<our cloud name>/resources/image/upload?public_ids[ ]=<public ID of the video to be deleted>`);

  Do I understand you correctly? And the 'image' in the link should still be there even if it is a video?

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  Raya Straus

  February 17, 2019 10:09

  Hi Pavel,

  You should indeed change the image to video in cases where you're deleting a video. 

   

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