---
title: "Purge Frame Cache"
method: POST
path: "/videos/purge-frame-cache"
tags: ["Videos"]
---

# Purge Frame Cache

`POST /videos/purge-frame-cache`

## Request

- Base URL: `http://localhost:52123`
- URL: `http://localhost:52123/videos/purge-frame-cache`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/aossie-org/apis/pictopy/docs/videos/purge-frame-cache/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Delete the sampled keyframe JPEGs. Tags and semantic search survive:
only the on-disk frames are removed, not their embeddings.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- PurgeFrameCacheResponse
  - `success` boolean, required
  - `message` string, required
  - `bytes_reclaimed` integer, required

## Other responses

- `500`: Internal Server Error

## Changes

- **2026-07-24** `139d995685b7`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/aossie-org/apis/pictopy/changes/videos/purge-frame-cache/post.md)

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