---
title: Tasks API
description: 'The core building block in Skyvern'
---

Tasks are the building block of Skyvern. They represent a single instruction to the browser to go do something using language models. Ex. “Go to alibaba and extract this information”

## Request - Initiate a task 
Request type: `POST`

Production:`https://api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/`

### Header 

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| x-api-key | String | yes | [your-api-key-here] | Bearer token that gives your backend access to the Skyvern API. This will be manually provided by us |
| x-max-steps-override | Integer | no | 10 | Overrides any max step configuration for the initiated task |

### Body

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| webhook_callback_url | String | no | …  | The callback URL once our system is finished processing this async task |
| navigation_goal | String | no | Apply for a job | The prompt that tells the agent what the user-facing goal is. This is the guiding light for the LLM as it navigates a particular website / sitemap to achieve this specified goal |
| data_extraction_goal | String | no | Was the job application successful? | The prompt that instructs the agent to extract information once the agent has achieved its user_goal |
| navigation_payload | Object | no |         "name": "Chris P. Bacon",<br/>"email": "mailto:chris@pbacon.com" | JSON-formatted payload with any “facts” or information that would help the agent perform its job. In the case of navigating an insurance quote, this payload would include any user information to help fill out the insurance flow such as date of birth, or age they got their license, and so on<br/><br/>This can include nested information, and the formatting isn’t validated |
| proxy_location | String | yes | RESIDENTIAL | Proxy location for the web-browsing request. Please pass RESIDENTIAL as a value |
| extracted_information_schema | JSON | no |  | Used to enforce a JSON schema spec to be enforced in the data_extraction_goal. Similar to https://json-schema.org/ definition. |
| totp_verification_url | String | no | https://mywebsite.com/two_factor_code | The url of your TOTP endpoint |

## Example Request (Apply for a job)

```python
POST https://api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/ 

{
    "url": "https://jobs.lever.co/leverdemo-8/45d39614-464a-4b62-a5cd-8683ce4fb80a/apply",
    "navigation_goal": "Apply for a job",
    "data_extraction_goal": "Was the job application successful?",
    "proxy_location": "RESIDENTIAL",
    "navigation_payload": {
        "name": "Chris P. Bacon",
        "email": "chris@pbacon.com"
    }
}
```

## Response

| Parameter | Type | Always returned? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| task_id | String | yes | t_123456 | The task id associated with this specific task |

## Response Webhook - Task conclusion (POST)

### Headers

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| x-skyvern-signature | String | yes | v0=a2114d57b48eac39b9ad189<br/>dd8316235a7b4a8d21a10bd275<br/>19666489c69b503 | Authentication token that allows our service to communicate with your backend service via callback / webhook <br/>We’ll be using the same strategy slack uses, as defined here: https://api.slack.com/authentication/verifying-requests-from-slack#making__validating-a-request |
| x-skyvern-timestamp | String | yes | 1531420618 | Timestamp used to decode and validate the incoming webhook call<br/><br/>We’ll be using the same strategy slack uses, as defined here: https://api.slack.com/authentication/verifying-requests-from-slack#making__validating-a-request |

### Body

| Parameter | Type | Always returned? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| task_id | String | yes | t_123456 | The task id associated with this specific task |
| extracted_information | Object | Yes | 'price’: ‘$100.0’ | Unstructured JSON payload containing the extracted information as specified by the users’ input prompt |
| screenshot_url | String | Yes | … url to screenshot … | Screenshot of the final page, where the data extraction occurs |
| recording_url | String | Yes | .. url to recording … | Recording of the entire browsing session to help debug any issues |
| failure_reason | String | No | “Failed to pass this page - missing information: date of birth” | A failure reason that caused the job to fail. This can range from internal errors (Skyvern side) or external errors (insufficient information provided) |

## Request - Task Details (GET)

You can use this API to poll for task status updates if you don’t want to wait for webhook callbacks.

Request type: `GET`

Production:`api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/{task_id}`

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| task_id | String | yes | t_123 | The id of the task you want to check the status of |

## Request - List Task Details (GET)

Request type: `GET`

Production:`api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/`

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| page | Integer | no | 1 | default=1
has to be ≥1 |
| page_size | Integer | no | 10 | default=10
has to be ≥1 |

## Response - Task Details (GET)

| Parameter | Type | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| request | JSON |  | Includes the initial request sent to create the task. Fields included: url,webhook_callback_url,navigation_goal,data_extraction_goal,navigation_payload,proxy_location,extracted_information_schema  |
| task_id | String | t_123 | The id of the task you want to check the status of |
| status | String | SUCCESS / FAILURE / IN_PROGRESS | String indicating the status of this task |
| created_at | Timestamp | 2022-11-22T22:55:55 | Timestamp indicating when the task was created. |
| modified_at | Timestamp | 2022-11-22T22:55:55 | Timestamp indicating when the task was last updated. Used to detect long-running tasks. |
| extracted_information | Object | Yes | 'price’: ‘$100.0’ |
| screenshot_url | String | Yes | … url to screenshot … |
| recording_url | String | Yes | .. url to recording … |
| failure_reason | String | No | “Failed to pass this page - missing information: invalid password” |

## Request - List Steps (GET)
Each task is made up of "steps" which are the individual actions Skyvern takes to complete the task. You can use this endpoint to get all the steps of the task.

Request type: `GET`

Production: `https://api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/{task_id}/steps`

## Response - List Steps (GET)
The response is a list of Step Object.

### Step Object
| Parameter | Type | Sample Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| organization_id | String | o_123 | Your organization id |
| task_id | String | tsk_123 | The id of the task |
| step_id | String | stp_123 | The id of the step |
| status | String | created / running / completed / failed / canceled | The status of the step |
| order | Integer | 0 / 1 / 2 | The zero based index of the step. 0 is the first step of the task. |
| retry_index | Integer | 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 | When a step fails, the retry step will have a retry_index that's larger than 0 |
| input_token_count | Integer | 19223 | The number of input tokens used in this step |
| output_token_count | Integer | 500 | The number of output tokens generated in this step |

## Request - Cancel A Task (POST)
A task that's in any of thsese states can be canceled: ["created", "queued", "running"]

Request type: `POST`

Production: `https://api.skyvern.com/api/v1/tasks/{task_id}/cancel`
