Start, pause, or cancel a print job via the OctoPrint Job API

domain: octoprint.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Authenticate requests with an OctoPrint API key via the X-Api-Key header
  2. GET /api/job to check whether a file is selected and read current job progress
  3. POST /api/job with {"command": "start"} to begin printing the currently selected file
  4. POST /api/job with {"command": "pause", "action": "pause|resume|toggle"} to control an in-progress print
  5. POST /api/job with {"command": "cancel"} to stop the current job

Known gotchas

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