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Brock
Brock

Reputation: 19

Unable to batch delete playlistitems?

I'm attempting to batch delete YouTube videos (playlistItems) from a created playlist. I have an array of playlistitem ids which I loop through and pass each Id as a parameter to the function below.

I get a status 204 response on every single delete... however the videos aren't actually deleted. Rather... only 2 or 3 (if I'm lucky) are deleted. If, for example, I were to try to batch delete 10 videos in a playlist... only 2 or 3 of those videos might actually be deleted. I can continue running my batch delete until, slowly but surely, all the items are deleted... but that seems hardly ideal and an unnecessary waste of quota.

I'm wondering if there's a limit to how quickly I'm allowed to delete playlistItems? And if so, why am I receiving a status 204 when it's clearly failing to delete?

function deleteVideo(id) { var url = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?id=" url += id; url += "&key=" + oauth2Provider.getApiKey(); return $http({ method: "DELETE", url: url, headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer " + oauth2Provider.getToken() } }).then(function successCallback(response) { console.log(response); return response; }, function errorCallback(response) { console.log(response); }); }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (1)

Brock
Brock

Reputation: 19

If this is ever helpful to anyone, I believe I later found out that you can't do all the deletes at once asynchronously. You can start off a chain of deletes via async, but each delete must complete before you start the next one in the chain.

Upvotes: 2

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