---
title: "Job.Cancel - Web Scraping API - Mozenda"
slug: "jobcancel"
description: "Jobs are the building blocks of a successful web scraping project. If a job is in a paused or errored state, you can use the Job.Cancel operation to cancel it. "
updated: 2024-05-14T14:24:23Z
published: 2024-05-14T14:24:23Z
canonical: "help.mozenda.com/jobcancel"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Job.Cancel

### Description

Cancels a **job** in the system.  

:::(Info) (Job Status)
 A **job** must be in a *Paused* or *Error* state to cancel a **job**.
:::

### URL parameters

| Name         | Required | Type   | Description                  |
| :----------- | :------- | :----- | :--------------------------- |
| `JobID` | True     | string | Unique identifier of the **job**. |


### Responses


| Name   | Type   | Description                                |
| :----- | :----- | :----------------------------------------- |
| `Result` | string | `Success` if the operation was successful. |

### Example request url

```bash
curl -X GET "https://api.mozenda.com/rest?WebServiceKey=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX&Service=Mozenda10&Operation=Job.Cancel&JobID=32476"
```

### Sample responses

#### XML
```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<JobCancelResponse
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
	<Result>Success</Result>
</JobCancelResponse>
```
#### JSON (add `&ResponseFormat=JSON`)
```json
{
   "JsonResult":{
      "Command":"Job.Cancel",
      "AutoLoggedIn":false,
      "WebConsoleKey":"",
      "Result":"Success",
      "ErrorCode":"",
      "ErrorDescription":"",
      "ErrorList":[

      ],
      "ExecutionTime":{
         "Ticks":0,
         "Days":0,
         "Hours":0,
         "Milliseconds":0,
         "Minutes":0,
         "Seconds":0,
         "TotalDays":0,
         "TotalHours":0,
         "TotalMilliseconds":0,
         "TotalMinutes":0,
         "TotalSeconds":0
      }
   }
}
```