Delete Dataset By Id

DELETE https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/{dataset_id}

Delete a dataset by its unique identifier

Authentication

• Authorization header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form Bearer <token>, where token is your auth token.

Request

Path parameters

• dataset_id (string, required)

Response

200

Successful Response

• created_dt (string, required) — The created datetime of the resource in ISO 8601 format.
• created_by (string, required) — ID of the user who added the asset to the dataset.
• id (string, required) — The unique identifier for the dataset.
• name (string, required) — Name of the dataset, must be unique per organization and must only contain alphanumeric and underscore characters.
• embeddings (list of object, required) — The encoders of the dataset.
  • id (string, required) — The unique identifier for the encoder.
  • name (enum or string, required) — The model used to extract visual and audio features from assets.
  • modality (string, required) — The supported modality of the encoder.
  • modalities (list of string, required) — The supported modalities of the encoder.
• encoders (list of object, required) — The encoders of the dataset.
  • id (string, required) — The unique identifier for the encoder.
  • name (enum or string, required) — The model used to extract visual and audio features from assets.
  • modality (string, required) — The supported modality of the encoder.
  • modalities (list of string, required) — The supported modalities of the encoder.
• description (string, required, nullable) — A short summary of what the dataset includes or is intended for.
• allowed_asset_types (list of enum, required) — Types of assets allowed in this dataset.
  • Allowed values: image, video
• status (enum, required, nullable) — The status of the dataset.
  • Allowed values: active, inactive, deleting, deleted
• keyframe_sampling_method (enum, required) — Sampling method to extract keyframes from videos in dataset.
  • Allowed values: intelligent, uniform
• store_original (boolean, required) — Whether the original file is stored.
• store_preview (boolean, required) — Whether preview files are stored.
• updated_dt (string, optional, nullable) — The datetime the resource was last updated in ISO 8601 format.
• updated_by (string, optional, nullable) — ID of the user who last updated the asset.
• deleted_dt (string, optional, nullable) — Timestamp if the resource was deleted.
• deleted_by (string, optional, nullable) — ID of the user who deleted the resource.
• keyframe_uniform_fps_sampling_rate (double, optional, nullable) — FPS rate used for uniform sampling.
• metadata_fields_to_index (list of string, optional, nullable) — The metadata fields to index for the dataset.
• metadata_fields_to_embed (list of string, optional, nullable) — The metadata fields to embed for the dataset.
• dataset_config (object, optional, nullable)
  • embedding_id (map from string to string, required) — Mapping from encoder modality to the UUID of the embedding model used for that modality.
  • encoder_name (map from string to string, required) — Mapping from encoder modality to the name of the encoder model used for that modality.
  • extra_config (object, optional, nullable) — Optional extra configuration for composite types.
    • composite_settings (map from string to object, required) — Mapping of composite type name to its settings.
      • maximum_slice_duration_seconds (integer, required) — Maximum duration in seconds for a single composite slice.
  • hybrid_search (object, optional, nullable) — Optional hybrid search configuration specifying modality weights.
    • weights (map from string to double, required) — Weights for each modality used in hybrid search scoring.
  • context_studio_enabled (boolean, optional, nullable, default: false) — Whether Context Studio is enabled for this dataset.
  • metadata_fields_to_embed (list of string, optional, nullable) — Metadata fields whose values are embedded.
  • metadata_fields_to_index (list of string, optional, nullable) — Metadata fields that are indexed for filtering and search.
  • celebrity_detection_enabled (boolean, optional, nullable, default: false) — Whether celebrity detection is enabled for this dataset.
  • agentic_search_metadata_description (map from string to string, optional, nullable) — Per-key descriptions of metadata fields.
  • asset_identifier_key (string, optional, nullable) — The metadata field name that uniquely identifies each asset in the dataset.
  • context_studio_export_json_connection_name (string, optional, nullable) — The name of the connection required for external s3 export. (this is related to context_studio feature).

Errors

422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Validation Error

• detail (list of object, optional)
  • loc (list of string or integer, required)
  • msg (string, required)
  • type (string, required)

Examples

Response

{
  "created_dt": "2026-05-29T19:00:16.311121Z",
  "created_by": "user123",
  "id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "name": "march_2025_sports_clips",
  "embeddings": [
    {
      "id": "44b5df56-fb37-4132-8902-2940c80d9089",
      "name": "multimodal",
      "modality": "image",
      "modalities": [
        "image",
        "video"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "encoders": [
    {
      "id": "44b5df56-fb37-4132-8902-2940c80d9089",
      "name": "multimodal",
      "modality": "image",
      "modalities": [
        "image",
        "video"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "Clips from March Madness",
  "allowed_asset_types": [
    "image",
    "video"
  ],
  "status": "active",
  "keyframe_sampling_method": "intelligent",
  "store_original": true,
  "store_preview": true,
  "updated_dt": "2026-05-29T19:00:16.311172Z",
  "updated_by": "user123",
  "deleted_dt": "2026-05-29T19:00:16.311236Z",
  "deleted_by": "user123",
  "keyframe_uniform_fps_sampling_rate": 1,
  "metadata_fields_to_index": [
    "title",
    "description"
  ],
  "metadata_fields_to_embed": [
    "title",
    "description"
  ],
  "dataset_config": {
    "embedding_id": {
      "audio_transcript": "a8d6a1f6-800d-499a-bb37-822fc71dfac2",
      "audio_transcript_chunk": "c5e1d8a0-3f4b-4c9b-9d1e-2f6a8b5c7d3e",
      "capped-shot-segment": "09bdcde7-8b89-4229-9494-35a4e52690ca",
      "image": "b25cf36e-e9b3-41d2-a856-47c891622cf9"
    },
    "encoder_name": {
      "audio_transcript": "st-qwen-p6b",
      "audio_transcript_chunk": "st-qwen-p6b",
      "capped-shot-segment": "nova2-multimodal-1024",
      "image": "nova2-multimodal-1024"
    },
    "extra_config": {
      "composite_settings": {
        "capped-shot-segment": {
          "maximum_slice_duration_seconds": 30
        }
      }
    },
    "hybrid_search": {
      "weights": {
        "image": 0.5,
        "text": 0.5
      }
    },
    "context_studio_enabled": false,
    "metadata_fields_to_embed": [
      "title",
      "description"
    ],
    "metadata_fields_to_index": [
      "title",
      "description"
    ],
    "celebrity_detection_enabled": false,
    "agentic_search_metadata_description": {
      "director": "The film director's name",
      "year": "Release year as integer"
    },
    "asset_identifier_key": "external_id",
    "context_studio_export_json_connection_name": "my_connection"
  }
}

SDK Code

import requests

url = "https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id';
const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id"

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('DELETE', 'https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.DELETE);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.coactive.ai/api/v1/datasets/dataset_id")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "DELETE"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()