Cancel a queued or running job

DELETEhttps://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/{id}Sign in to see this endpoint's URL

Parameters 1

Name	Type	Description
`id`required	path · string	Job id.

Responses

200: Job cancelled.
404: No job with that id.
409: The job has already finished.

Example

Request

curl -X DELETE "https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001" \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response200 OK

{
  "message": "Job cancelled",
  "data": {
    "id": "job_1001",
    "type": "import",
    "status": "cancelled",
    "progress": 16,
    "durationSeconds": 60,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-30T18:26:35Z",
    "startedAt": "2026-09-30T18:26:37Z",
    "finishedAt": "2026-09-30T18:26:47Z",
    "statusUrl": "/api/jobs/job_1001",
    "resultUrl": null,
    "error": null
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api.testingapis.com

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const body: string = await res.text();
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001",
    headers={
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine($"{(int)response.StatusCode} {await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()}");

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001"))
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .DELETE()
                .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, err := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(data))
}

DELETEhttps://api.testingapis.com/api/jobs/job_1001

Path

idrequiredstring