Appen Jobs API

Job management operations for creating, configuring, and controlling data annotation workflows. - **Job Lifecycle Management:** - **Create Jobs**: Initialize new annotation tasks with project association and type specification - **Update Settings**: Modify job configuration, instructions, and workflow parameters - **Launch Jobs**: Activate jobs from DRAFT to RUNNING state for contributor access - **Pause Jobs**: Temporarily halt job execution while preserving progress - **Job Types Supported:** - **WORK**: Standard annotation jobs for tasks - **QA**: Quality assurance jobs for reviewing, validating work and providing the feedback. - **Job States:** 1. **DRAFT**: Initial creation state, configurable but not accessible to contributors 2. **RUNNING**: Active state where contributors can work on assignments 3. **PAUSED**: Temporarily halted, preserving all progress and judgments

Operations 7

POST /v3/jobs/jobs.json Create a new job #
POST /v3/project-flow/projects/jobs/copy-job Copy an existing job within a project #
GET /v3/project-flow/projects/jobs/status Get job status #
PUT /v3/jobs/update Update job settings #
GET /v3/jobs/jobStatusById Get job settings #
POST /v3/jobs/pause Pause job #
POST /v3/jobs/launch Launch & Resume/Run job #

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OpenAPI Specification

appen-jobs-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Appen AI Data Annotation Platform (ADAP) Jobs API
  description: '# Introduction


    The Appen AI Data Annotation Platform (ADAP) APIs offer a structured, automated approach to ensure high-quality data labeling on a scale.'
servers:
- url: https://api.appen.com/
  description: Production environment
security:
- TokenAuth: []
tags:


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