Background Jobs Check

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Checks status of background job that was previously created with PDF.co API.

Available Methods

[POST] /job/check

[POST] /job/check

jobId required. Id of background that was started asynchronously. Must be a String. To start a new async background job, you should set async to true for API methods.
force optional. Set to true to forcely check the status of the background job. Intended to be used with really long and heavy background jobs only.

Returns JSON with status of the background job.

Available status values:

working background job is currently in work or does not exist.
success background job was successfully finished.
failed background job failed for some reason (see message for more details).
aborted background job was aborted.
unknown unknown background job id. Available only when force is set to true for input request.
Method: POST
URL: /v1/job/check

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Body payload

{
    "jobid": "12345"
}

Example responses

/job/check

{
    "status": "working",
    "remainingCredits": 60227
}

Code Snippet

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/job/check' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--data-raw '{
    "jobid": "12345"
}'

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