Delete a file

DELETE/assets/{id}

Costs 2 rate-limit points · Rate limits

Delete a file from the library, as the Files page's Delete does: it leaves every digital product and order it was on, and the stored body is purged. Destructive: send it first without confirm. Nothing changes and the 409 confirmation_required says what would. Tell the merchant, ask, and resend with confirm: true only after they agree. For more than one, use POST /assets/bulk_delete, which previews the counts; don't call this in a loop.

Permanent. Buyers lose the file. Without confirm: true nothing is deleted: 409 confirmation_required says how many digital products and orders it is on (GET /assets/:id/linked_orders lists them).

Also searched asdelete fileremove filedelete this uploadremove the link

Path parameters

idstringRequired

Query parameters

confirmstring

Returns

deletedboolean, nullable
Example: true
idstring, nullable
Example: e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10

Errors

401

Missing or invalid API key.

404

The resource does not exist for this shop, or the action path is not registered.

422

The request failed validation, or sent a key the action does not take (code: "unknown_parameters" with unknown and accepted). Nothing was saved.

429

Rate limited. Cost-weighted per API key, shared with API v1: a read costs 1 point, a write 2, 40 points per fixed 60-second window. Every response carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset (Unix time the window ends); a 429 adds Retry-After (seconds), retry_after, retryable: true and a next_step in the body. A 429 did nothing: wait retry_after seconds, then send the same request again. The budget is per key, so every tool or script using the key shares it; prefer one list call with per_page over many single reads.

Every error has the same shape: see Errors.

DELETE/assets/{id}

curl -X DELETE "https://app.filemonk.io/api/v2/external/assets/e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10" \
  -H "X-Auth-Token: $FILEMONK_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://app.filemonk.io/api/v2/external/assets/e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "X-Auth-Token": process.env.FILEMONK_API_KEY,
  },
});
const data = await res.json();

import os
import requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://app.filemonk.io/api/v2/external/assets/e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10",
    headers={"X-Auth-Token": os.environ["FILEMONK_API_KEY"]},
)
data = res.json()

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://app.filemonk.io/api/v2/external/assets/e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10")
req = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri, "X-Auth-Token" => ENV["FILEMONK_API_KEY"])
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(req) }
data = JSON.parse(res.body)

Response

{
  "deleted": true,
  "id": "e2b7727e-45ad-42b7-b842-cc4615205b10"
}

{
  "errors": [
    "Invalid API key"
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    "Order not found: c3d4e5f6-7a8b-4c9d-8e0f-1a2b3c4d5e6f"
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    "access.download_limit_count must be an integer of at least 0"
  ],
  "field_errors": {
    "access.download_limit_count": [
      "must be an integer of at least 0"
    ]
  }
}

{
  "errors": [
    "You have exceeded the rate limit of 40 points per 60 seconds. Read requests cost 1 point(s) and write requests cost 2 point(s). Please retry after 12 second(s)."
  ],
  "code": "rate_limited",
  "retry_after": 12,
  "error": "Rate limit exceeded",
  "message": "You have exceeded the rate limit of 40 points per 60 seconds. Read requests cost 1 point(s) and write requests cost 2 point(s). Please retry after 12 second(s)."
}