Response Status Codes

This is the list of all HTTP response status codes returned by ConvertAPI. The three-number code describes HTTP Status code and four number code shows additional information about the result in the response body.

The example response body of authentication failure:

Response Header

HTTP status code 401

Response body

{
    "Code": 4013,
    "Message": "User credentials not set, secret or token must be passed."
}

Result

200 OK Conversion completed successfully.

Malformed request

400 Bad Request Request does not provide all data to execute the conversion.
4000 Parameter validation error.
4001 No content disposition provided.
4002 Bad JSON format.
4005 File encoded in Base64 not found.

Authentication

401 Unauthorized Authentication failure.
4010 Invalid user credentials - bad secret.
4011 Invalid user credentials - bad token.
4012 Invalid user credentials - bad JWT token.
4013 User credentials not set - secret or token must be provided.
4014 User inactive.

Not Supported

415 Unsupported Media Type The file is not supported by file server or endpoint.

Conversion failure

500 Internal Server Error Conversion failure.
5000 Conversion timeout.
5001 Conversion failed.
5002 File is damaged.
5003 File is password protected.
5004 No tables to extract in PDF file.
5005 Can not delete all document pages. The document should contain at least one page.
5006 The current encryption algorithm does not support Unicode passwords.
5007 Cannot decrypt PDF.
5008 Unable to access the file.
5009 File id is invalid.
50010 File link is set incorrectly. Url or File Id must be set.
50013 Images were not found in the PDF file.
50020 There are no supported files available for extraction.
50050 Unexpected exception. We have been notified about the problem and will try to fix it asap.

Throttle failure

503 service unavailable Request rejected due to rate limits. Retry is available after a few seconds.

Updated on: 31/07/2024