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PurgeUrlsMatchingRegex

Update time: 2026-07-28 19:04:42

Applicable Products

Content MGMT

API Description

Clear the cached file content on CDN nodes according to the regular URL method.

  • API URL: https://api.atomile.com/api/content/regular-url/purge
  • Method: POST
  • Limit Description: Data format: Both requests and responses only support JSON. Usage advice: If it's the same regular URL, submission is only allowed after the previous cache - clearing is completed. Excessively high refresh frequencies can affect the performance of the content management system. Daily usage (in the time zone of UTC+8): The default is 500.

Call frequency

Single user trigger frequency: 10/5min

Request parameter(s)

Body Params

NameDescription
urlRegularsList
The set of regular URLs for which the cache needs to be cleared. Requirements for the format of regular URLs:The URL should conform to a regular expression. Example input: http://www.a.com/(.).png. If you want to push the regular expression http://www.abc.com/test/.*\.txt, when using the interface, you need to escape the backslash, that is, http://www.abc.com/test/.*\\.txt.The domain name of each regular URL must be a domain name accelerated by our company.The maximum length of each regular URL is 2000 characters.If special characters are included in the regular URL, they need to be escaped in UTF - 8 format.For the same regular URL, the system will remove duplicates before submission.The default limit is 500 per day.
actionString
when the first access occurs, check whether the file has been updated from the source site, if updated, re-pull the new version from the source site and return to the customer, if not updated, the source site responds with 304, providing the node cache file to the customer. 3) When the customer specifies a value, it will be handled according to expire.

Response parameter(s)

Body Params

NameDescription
CodeString
Status code indicating the result of the task creation
MessageString
Indicates the response message of the system after the task is submitted.
itemIdString
After the interface is called once and the task is successfully submitted, it will return an itemamId, which is the unique identifier of the task submitted at that time. The itemId can be used to query the status (success/failure) of the task in batches.

Error code

Error code(code)Description(message)HTTP statusSemantic
SuccessTask submitted successfully200Task submitted successfully
UserNameInvalidUsername is empty or user is not enabled400Username is empty or user is not enabled
ParseParameterErrorparse parameter json error400parse parameter json error
UrlRegularEmptyurl regular must not be empty400url regular must not be empty
OnceSubmitLessThan500you can't submit more than 500 url regulars at a time400you can't submit more than 500 url regulars at a time
NumberOutOfLimitthe number of url regular out of today limit(500)400the number of url regular out of today limit(500)
NumberOutOfLimitIf the incoming header has a X-Time-Zone, the prompt includes a time interval corresponding to the time zone, such as the number of url regular out of 2018-10-17 01:00:00 GMT+09:00~2018-10-18 00:59: 59GMT+09:00 limit(500)400If the incoming header has a X-Time-Zone, the prompt includes a time interval corresponding to the time zone, such as the number of url regular out of 2018-10-17 01:00:00 GMT+09:00~2018-10-18 00:59: 59GMT+09:00 limit(500)
NumberPartlyOutOfLimitThe regular part of the submitted url exceeds the upper limit. If it is not exceeded, it can be executed normally.400The regular part of the submitted url exceeds the upper limit. If it is not exceeded, it can be executed normally.
RepeatUrlRegularrunning url regular[xxx], please try again after one minute.400running url regular[xxx], please try again after one minute.
UserNotAllowedPushuser not allowed push400user not allowed push
ErrorChannelerror channel [xxx,xxx].400error channel [xxx,xxx].
InvalidUrlRegularinvalid url regular [url1,url2].400invalid url regular [url1,url2].
ActionIllegalaction is illegal, it should be one of these values: delete, expire.400action is illegal, it should be one of these values: delete, expire.
SystemExceptionsystem exception500system exception

Example

JSON
JSON
Request example
Copy Copy success
#!/bin/bash
username="username_exmaple"
apiKey='apiKey_exmaple'
date=`env LANG="en_US.UTF-8" date -u "+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT"`
password=`echo -en "$date" | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac $apiKey -binary | openssl enc -base64`
curl -i --url "https://api.atomile.com/api/content/regular-url/purge" \
-X "POST" \
-u "$username:$password" \
-H "Date:$date" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d'{
      "urlRegulars":[
          "http://www.abc.com/test/.*\\.txt",
          "http://www.abc.com/test/.*\\.png"
       ],
       "action": "expire"   
}'
Response example
Copy Copy success
{
   "Code":Success,
   "Message":"handle success",
   "itemId":"64ec364dd81d4052a3534c1e86167950"
}