Immediately purge a file
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id} \
--header 'X-Api-Key: <api-key>'import requests
url = "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}"
headers = {"X-Api-Key": "<api-key>"}
response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {'X-Api-Key': '<api-key>'}};
fetch('https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-Api-Key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("X-Api-Key", "<api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}")
.header("X-Api-Key", "<api-key>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["X-Api-Key"] = '<api-key>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"deleted": true,
"id": "file_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2NABCDEFGHJKMN",
"object": "file"
}{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request",
"code": "balance_too_low",
"message": "Team available balance is 1.5 credits, generation requires 2.0.",
"doc_url": "https://docs.aurous-labs.com/errors#balance_too_low",
"request_id": "req_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2VNABCDEFGHJKM",
"param": "prompt",
"reason": "wrong_view",
"detected_view": "full_left"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request",
"code": "balance_too_low",
"message": "Team available balance is 1.5 credits, generation requires 2.0.",
"doc_url": "https://docs.aurous-labs.com/errors#balance_too_low",
"request_id": "req_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2VNABCDEFGHJKM",
"param": "prompt",
"reason": "wrong_view",
"detected_view": "full_left"
}
}Files
Immediately purge a file
Idempotent — returns 200 even when the file does not exist or has already been deleted. In-flight generations that already snapshotted the URL keep working; subsequent GET /v1/files/:id calls return 404.
DELETE
/
v1
/
files
/
{id}
Immediately purge a file
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id} \
--header 'X-Api-Key: <api-key>'import requests
url = "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}"
headers = {"X-Api-Key": "<api-key>"}
response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {'X-Api-Key': '<api-key>'}};
fetch('https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-Api-Key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("X-Api-Key", "<api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}")
.header("X-Api-Key", "<api-key>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.aurous-labs.com/v1/files/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["X-Api-Key"] = '<api-key>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"deleted": true,
"id": "file_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2NABCDEFGHJKMN",
"object": "file"
}{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request",
"code": "balance_too_low",
"message": "Team available balance is 1.5 credits, generation requires 2.0.",
"doc_url": "https://docs.aurous-labs.com/errors#balance_too_low",
"request_id": "req_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2VNABCDEFGHJKM",
"param": "prompt",
"reason": "wrong_view",
"detected_view": "full_left"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request",
"code": "balance_too_low",
"message": "Team available balance is 1.5 credits, generation requires 2.0.",
"doc_url": "https://docs.aurous-labs.com/errors#balance_too_low",
"request_id": "req_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2VNABCDEFGHJKM",
"param": "prompt",
"reason": "wrong_view",
"detected_view": "full_left"
}
}Authorizations
Your team API key (starts with al_live_).
Headers
Optional API version pin (YYYY-MM-DD). Omit the header to receive the platform default, currently 2026-08-26.
Pattern:
^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$Example:
"2026-08-26"
Path Parameters
Opaque file ID.
Example:
"file_01HXMQ7Z3K8Y2NABCDEFGHJKMN"

