Cancel Composite Merge - API

Cancel an in-flight composite-merge transcoding job. Only jobs in pending or processing status can be cancelled — calling this on a job in any other status returns 409.

HTTP method and endpoint

POST

|

https://api.videosdk.live/v2/transcodings/{transcodingId}/cancel

Headers Parameters

Authorization

REQUIRED

values: YOUR_TOKEN_WITHOUT_ANY_PREFIX

This will be a JWT token generate using VideoSDK ApiKey and Secret.

Note that the token will not include any prefix such as "Basic " or "Bearer ". Just pass a token as value.

You can generate a new token by refering this Guide: Generate Auth token

Parameters

transcodingId

REQUIRED

The ID of the composite-merge transcoding job to cancel.

POST

|

https://api.videosdk.live/v2/transcodings/{transcodingId}/cancel

NodeJS

• cURL
• NodeJS
• PHP
• Python

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
const options = {
	method: "POST",
	headers: {
		"Authorization": "$YOUR_TOKEN",
	},
};
const url= `https://api.videosdk.live/v2/transcodings/{transcodingId}/cancel`;
const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

RESPONSE

{
  "id": "665fcf7f2abe9a2807e42700",
  "recordingIds": [
    "6697685c6eaaaac67ea18130",
    "6697685c6eaaaac67ea18131"
  ],
  "roomId": "abcd-efgh-ijkl",
  "sessionId": "6847c231fbaa8b416bc87014",
  "status": "cancelled",
  "task": "composite-merge",
  "startedAt": "2025-06-10T05:45:02.730Z",
  "stoppedAt": "2025-06-10T05:45:30.120Z"
}