# Delete multiple files

URL: https://docs.sparklayer.io/developers/api/files/delete-multiple-files
Operation: `POST /api/v1/batch-delete-files` (operationId `deleteBulkFiles`)
OpenAPI spec: https://docs.sparklayer.io/openapi/files.yaml

Deletes the files whose IDs you send as a JSON array. IDs that do not exist are ignored. If some files could not be removed from storage, the response is a `500` whose `errors` give the affected file IDs in `property`, so you can retry just those.

`POST /api/v1/batch-delete-files`

**Base URLs:** `https://app.sparklayer.io` (Live), `https://test.app.sparklayer.io` (Test)

**Authentication:** send `Authorization: Bearer <access_token>` and `Site-Id: <site id>` with every request. Get the token from [Get an access token](https://docs.sparklayer.io/developers/api/core/get-an-access-token.md); see [Authentication](https://docs.sparklayer.io/developers/authentication.md).

### Example request

```bash
curl -X POST "https://app.sparklayer.io/api/v1/batch-delete-files" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPARKLAYER_TOKEN" \
  -H "Site-Id: $SPARKLAYER_SITE_ID" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[
  "3f2b8c1e-5d4a-4e6f-9b7c-1a2d3e4f5a6b"
]'
```

Set `SPARKLAYER_TOKEN` to an access token and `SPARKLAYER_SITE_ID` to your Site ID. For the test environment, use `https://test.app.sparklayer.io`.

### Header parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Site-Id` | string | Yes | Your SparkLayer Site ID, from Settings > API in the SparkLayer Dashboard. Example: `jones-climbing` |

### Request body (`application/json`) (required)

Type: `(string (uuid))[]`

```json
[
  "3f2b8c1e-5d4a-4e6f-9b7c-1a2d3e4f5a6b"
]
```

### Responses

#### 204: The files were deleted. No body.

#### Other statuses: An error. The body describes the problem: see [Errors](https://docs.sparklayer.io/developers/errors.md).

`application/problem+json`: the standard error body (below).

### Error body

Error responses with a body use this RFC 7807 problem details object. See [Errors](https://docs.sparklayer.io/developers/errors.md) for every status code and which errors to retry.

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `detail` | string | | Human-readable summary of the error |
| `status` | integer | | HTTP Status code returned from API |
| `title` | string | | Machine-readable error code |
| `type` | string \| null | | |
| `errors` | object[] \| null | | A list of errors related to the call |
| `errors[].code` | string | | Machine-readable error code |
| `errors[].property` | string | | The property the error relates to |
| `errors[].message` | string | | Human readable summary of the error |

```json
{
  "detail": "Data Validation Failed",
  "status": 400,
  "title": "invalid-api-request-contents",
  "type": "https://docs.sparklayer.io/api/errors#invalid-api-request-contents",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "resource-not-found",
      "property": "template",
      "message": "template not found"
    }
  ]
}
```