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Pause Recording

pause_recording

Pause a recording; until resume_recording nothing is captured, and the gap is left out of the file, events, and markers.

capturewritesidempotentsince v0.47.0

00:00PARAMETERS
NameTypeDescription
sessionId requiredstringFrom start_recording.
00:05A MINIMAL CALL
pause_recording { "sessionId": "rec-20260101-120000-ab12" }

The required arguments only, with placeholder values. Everything else takes its default.

00:10WHAT COMES BACK

Structured content (structuredContent), alongside a text summary:

FieldType
sessionId alwaysstring
status alwaysstring
recordedSec alwaysnumber