Delete Object

DELETE/accounts/{account_id}/r2/buckets/{bucket_name}/objects/{object_key}

Deletes an object from an R2 bucket.

For most workloads, we recommend using R2’s S3-compatible API or a Worker with an R2 binding instead.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Workers R2 Storage Write

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

account_id: string

Account ID.

maxLength32

bucket_name: string

Name of the bucket.

maxLength64

minLength3

object_key: string

The key (name) of the object to delete. May contain slashes for path-like keys. Slashes (/) within the key MUST be sent literally and MUST NOT be percent-encoded (i.e. %2F); other reserved characters should be percent-encoded as usual.

Header ParametersExpand Collapse

"cf-r2-jurisdiction": optional "default" or "eu" or "fedramp"

Jurisdiction where objects in this bucket are guaranteed to be stored.

One of the following:

"default"

"eu"

"fedramp"

ReturnsExpand Collapse

errors: array of ResponseInfo { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional object { pointer }

pointer: optional string

messages: array of string

result: object { key }

Result of a successful object deletion.

key: optional string

The key (name) of the deleted object.

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

Delete Object

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/r2/buckets/$BUCKET_NAME/objects/$OBJECT_KEY \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    "string"
  ],
  "result": {
    "key": "path/to/my-object.txt"
  },
  "success": true
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    "string"
  ],
  "result": {
    "key": "path/to/my-object.txt"
  },
  "success": true
}