How to Delete Snapshots

To delete a snapshot via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

                 doctl auth init
               

4. Finally, delete a snapshot with doctl compute snapshot delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl compute snapshot delete <snapshot-id>... [flags]
               

   The following example deletes a Droplet snapshot with ID 386734086

                  doctl compute snapshot delete 386734086
               

To delete a snapshot using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

   cURL

   To delete a snapshot with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X DELETE \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/snapshots/fbe805e8-866b-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41"

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To delete a snapshot with Godo, use the following code:

   
                   import (
       "context"
       "os"
   
       "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
   )
   
   func main() {
       token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")
   
       client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
       ctx := context.TODO()
   
       _, err := client.Snapshots.Delete(ctx, 'fbe805e8-866b-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41')
   }

   Ruby

   Ruby developers can use DropletKit, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Ruby. To delete a snapshot with DropletKit, use the following code:

   
                   require 'droplet_kit'
   token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
   client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)
   
   client.snapshots.delete(id: 'fbe805e8-866b-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41')

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   resp = client.snapshots.delete(snapshot_id="fbe805e8")