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POST
Resume a Scraper Studio job
Restart a paused Bright Data Scraper Studio job. The job continues processing its remaining inputs and moves back to running. This endpoint takes no request body and returns the plain text body OK on success, not JSON. Read the response as text rather than calling a JSON parser on it.
Resume works only on a job in the paused state, which means a job stopped with Pause a Scraper Studio job. A canceled job cannot be resumed, and neither can a completed one.

Job state behavior

Completed jobs cannot be paused, resumed or canceled.

How to find a job ID

Use the jobs list endpoint to find the ID of the job you want to resume:
Use the returned id value as the job_id path parameter. See List Scraper Studio jobs for the full parameter list.

When to use this endpoint

  • Continue a batch you paused during a target site incident, once the site is stable again
  • Restart paused jobs at the end of a maintenance window
  • Resume after adjusting country, session or concurrency settings in response to blocking

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Use your Bright Data API Key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

How to authenticate:

  1. Obtain your API Key from the Bright Data account settings at https://brightdata.com/cp/setting/users
  2. Include the API Key in the Authorization header of your requests
  3. Format: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Example:

Learn how to get your Bright Data API key: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/authentication

Path Parameters

job_id
string
required

ID of the job to resume

Response

Job resumed successfully

The response is of type string.