Captions: delete

Deletes a specified caption track.

Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 50 units.

Common use cases

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/captions

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes. To read more about authentication and authorization, see Implementing OAuth 2.0 authorization.

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner`

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.

Parameters
Required parameters
`id`	`string` The `id` parameter identifies the caption track that is being deleted. The value is a caption track ID as identified by the `id` property in a `caption` resource.
Optional parameters
`onBehalfOfContentOwner`	`string` This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners. The `onBehalfOfContentOwner` parameter indicates that the request's authorization credentials identify a YouTube CMS user who is acting on behalf of the content owner specified in the parameter value. This parameter is intended for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. It allows content owners to authenticate once and get access to all their video and channel data, without having to provide authentication credentials for each individual channel. The actual CMS account that the user authenticates with must be linked to the specified YouTube content owner.

Request body

Do not provide a request body when calling this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an HTTP 204 No Content status code.

Errors

The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Fore more details, see YouTube Data API - Errors.

Error type	Error detail	Description
`forbidden (403)`	`forbidden`	The permissions associated with the request are not sufficient to delete the caption track. The request might not be properly authorized.
`notFound (404)`	`captionNotFound`	The caption track could not be found. Check the value of the request's `id` parameter to ensure that it is correct.

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