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sendspace API (beta) Developer Guide The sendspace Application Programming Interface (API) allows you to embed sendspace services in your applications, programs, or scripts, regardless of platform and programming language. All communication with the sendspace API (beta) assumes a UTF-8 encoding.

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Method: files.delete

Description

Deletes a single file or more. This action cannot be reversed.

Arguments

Name	Mandatory	Description
session_key	Yes	Received from auth.login
file_id	Yes	file_id or list of files' id's (a1a1a1,s2s2s2,d3d3d3)

Returns

ID of the file if operation was successful

Response

 
<!-- successful response -->
<result method="files.delete" status="ok">
    <id>$file_id</id>
</result>         
 
<!-- failed response -->
<result method="files.delete" status="fail">
        <error code="9" text="File not found"/>
        <id>u5txwy</id>
</result>

Usage Example

requesting deletion of 1 file:

 
http://api.sendspace.com/rest/?method=files.delete&session_key=9i96woykgory1crglmykgycjwa5k2cq2&file_id=2u0v02

requesting deletion of more than 1 file:

 
http://api.sendspace.com/rest/?method=files.delete&session_key=9i96woykgory1crglmykgycjwa5k2cq2&file_id=yqnz48%2Cfbl8my

Possible Errors

Code	Name	Description
6	API_ERROR_SESSION_BAD	Session expired or not found
9	API_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND	File not found