Method: projects.assets.delete

  • Permanently deletes an Earth Engine asset using a DELETE request to the specified URL.

  • Requires providing the asset's full name in the URL path, following the format "projects/*/assets/**".

  • The request body should be empty, and a successful deletion results in an empty response body.

  • Users need specific IAM permission (earthengine.assets.delete) and proper authorization scopes (earthengine or cloud-platform) to delete an asset.

Deletes an asset.

HTTP request

DELETE https://earthengine.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/assets/**}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. The name of the asset to delete. name is of the format "projects/*/assets/**" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/[USER]/[ASSET]"). All user-owned assets are under the project "earthengine-legacy" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/foo/bar"). All other assets are under the project "earthengine-public" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-public/assets/LANDSAT").

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:

  • earthengine.assets.delete

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/earthengine
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.