# Upload Deletion via API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-deletion-via-api/396741
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** uploads, rest-api
**Created:** [February 22, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-deletion-via-api/396741 "2026-02-22T19:08:47Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-deletion-via-api/396741/2 "2026-02-24T13:35:06Z")

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What’s your use case?

Depending on your configuration, uploads being a shared resource (referenced by posts, user profile, badges, etc…) it’s somewhat risky to delete them without proper due diligence.

Plus they’re automatically cleaned up after a little while if they’re not being referenced anywhere.

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