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Objects: delete

Requires authorization

Deletes data blobs and associated metadata. Try it now or see an example .

The authenticated user must have WRITER permissions on the bucket .

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1beta1/b/bucket/o/object

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Required parameters
bucket string Name of the bucket in which the object resides.
object string Name of the object.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes ( read more about authentication and authorization ).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.write_only
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_write
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an empty response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library

# Delete object from bucket
object_delete_result = client.execute(
  api_method: storage.objects.delete,
  parameters: {bucket:BUCKET, object: OBJECT}
)
if object_delete_result.response.status == 204
  puts "Successfully deleted #{OBJECT}.\n"
else
  puts "Failed to delete #{OBJECT}.\n"
end

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