> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orgo.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Scroll

> Move the pointer to a coordinate and scroll the wheel up or down there.

Moves the pointer to `x`, `y` and scrolls the wheel there. A Windows computer scrolls at the pointer's current position instead.

<Warning>
  On Linux, always send `x` and `y`. The pointer is moved before every scroll, and
  omitting either coordinate moves it to `0` on that axis. A request of
  `{"direction": "down", "amount": 3}` warps the pointer to the top-left corner
  and scrolls whatever happens to be under it. On Linux there is no way to scroll
  at the pointer's current position through this endpoint.
</Warning>

<Note>
  A Windows computer scrolls at the pointer's current position and ignores
  `?screen=`. Send it only `direction` and `amount`, both required: `direction`
  must be `up` or `down` and `amount` from `1` to `50`. Any other field,
  including `x` and `y`, or a value outside those rules returns `400`. A
  successful response is `{"ok": true}`.
</Note>

## Path parameters

<ParamField path="id" type="string" required>
  Computer ID (UUID). An `instance_id` is not accepted here and fails with `500`.
</ParamField>

## Query parameters

<ParamField query="screen" type="string">
  Which [screen](/api-reference/screens/list) to scroll on. Optional. Omit it to
  act on the screen the computer booted with. An unknown id returns `404` rather
  than falling back to the default screen. A Windows computer ignores this
  parameter.
</ParamField>

## Body parameters

<ParamField body="x" type="integer" required>
  X coordinate to move the pointer to before scrolling, in pixels from the left
  edge. Nominally optional, but omitting it moves the pointer to `x = 0`. See
  the warning above. A Windows computer refuses this field with `400`.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="y" type="integer" required>
  Y coordinate to move the pointer to before scrolling, in pixels from the top
  edge. Nominally optional, but omitting it moves the pointer to `y = 0`. See
  the warning above. A Windows computer refuses this field with `400`.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="direction" type="string" default="down">
  Scroll direction: `up` or `down`. Optional on Linux: omitting it scrolls down,
  and so does any value other than the exact string `up`. Required on Windows.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="amount" type="integer" default="1">
  Number of wheel clicks. Optional on Linux: omitting it, or sending `0`,
  scrolls once, and a negative value moves the pointer, scrolls nothing, and
  still returns `200`. Required on Windows, from `1` to `50`.
</ParamField>

## Response

<ResponseField name="success" type="boolean">
  Always `true` on a `200`. A failed scroll is an error status.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="action" type="string">
  Always `scroll`.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="details" type="object">
  Carries `direction` and `amount` after defaults are applied. The coordinates
  the pointer was moved to are not echoed back.
</ResponseField>

## Example

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  # Scroll down 3 clicks over (640, 400)
  curl -X POST https://www.orgo.ai/api/computers/$COMPUTER_ID/scroll \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORGO_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"x": 640, "y": 400, "direction": "down", "amount": 3}'

  # Scroll up 10 clicks over the same point
  curl -X POST https://www.orgo.ai/api/computers/$COMPUTER_ID/scroll \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORGO_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"x": 640, "y": 400, "direction": "up", "amount": 10}'
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import requests

  requests.post(
      f"https://www.orgo.ai/api/computers/{computer_id}/scroll",
      headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
      json={"x": 640, "y": 400, "direction": "down", "amount": 3}
  )
  ```

  ```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
  await fetch(`https://www.orgo.ai/api/computers/${computerId}/scroll`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Authorization': `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ x: 640, y: 400, direction: 'down', amount: 3 })
  });
  ```
</CodeGroup>

### Response

```json theme={null}
{
  "success": true,
  "action": "scroll",
  "details": { "direction": "down", "amount": 3 },
  "error": null,
  "error_type": null
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Meaning |
| - | - |
| `400` | The computer has no VM attached: `{"error": "Desktop instance not available"}`. Also returned by the computer agent when a body field has the wrong JSON type, such as `amount` sent as a string rather than a number. A Windows computer also returns it for a body outside its rules, as `{"error": "Request failed with status code 400"}` with `upstream_status: 400`. |
| `401` | Invalid API key: `{"error": "Invalid API key"}`. A request with no `Authorization` header returns `{"error": "Authentication required"}`. Access failures also return `401` on this endpoint, not `403`: `{"error": "You do not have access to this workspace."}` when you are neither the owner nor a member of the computer's workspace, `{"error": "This workspace is view-only. Ask the owner for write access (workspace_read_only)."}` for a view-only member, and `{"error": "This API key cannot access this workspace (workspace_scope_mismatch)."}` for a workspace-scoped key used outside its workspace. A server-side fault while verifying the credential also returns `401` here, with `{"error": "Service temporarily unavailable. …"}`. Retry that one; the key is fine. |
| `402` | The computer was created as a free trial that is no longer active: `{"error": "Choose a plan to continue."}`. |
| `404` | No computer with this id: `{"error": "Desktop not found"}`. Also returned when `?screen=` names a screen this computer does not have. |
| `500` | The computer agent could not move the pointer or scroll, or the request body is not valid JSON. |
| `503` | The computer could not be reached: `{"error": "Could not reach the desktop. Try again in a moment.", "code": "ECONNREFUSED"}`. Safe to retry. A computer that never finished provisioning also returns `503`, with `{"error": "Computer not ready"}`. |

Every failure raised after the request leaves the API layer also carries a
`request_id`. Quote it in support requests. When the computer agent itself
answered non-2xx, the body additionally carries `upstream_status`.

```json theme={null}
{
  "error": "moving mouse for scroll: exit status 1",
  "request_id": "9f2b7c3d-4e5f-6a7b-8c9d-0e1f2a3b4c5d",
  "upstream_status": 500
}
```


## OpenAPI

````yaml POST /computers/{id}/scroll
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Orgo API
  description: >-
    Launch cloud computers that AI agents can control and interact with. Create
    workspaces, provision computers, and control them programmatically.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: Orgo Support
    email: spencer@orgo.ai
    url: https://orgo.ai
servers:
  - url: https://www.orgo.ai/api
    description: Production
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Account
    description: >-
      Account capacity: how many computers an account may run, and adding or
      giving back more.
  - name: Clients
    description: >-
      Run Orgo for your clients from your own app: a workspace and scoped key
      each, billed to you or to them.
  - name: Workspaces
    description: Organize computers into named workspaces
  - name: Computers
    description: Provision and manage virtual computers
  - name: Computer Lifecycle
    description: Start, stop, and restart computers
  - name: Computer Actions
    description: Control mouse, keyboard, and execute commands
  - name: Screens
    description: >-
      More than one desktop on a single computer. Each screen is its own X
      server with its own cursor and window manager, so an agent working on one
      cannot disturb another.
  - name: Files
    description: Upload and download files
  - name: Templates
    description: Author, build, and launch reproducible computers from templates
paths:
  /computers/{id}/scroll:
    post:
      tags:
        - Computer Actions
      summary: Scroll
      description: Scrolls the mouse wheel up or down.
      operationId: scroll
      parameters:
        - name: id
          in: path
          required: true
          description: Computer ID
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: screen
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            Which screen to act on. Omit for the boot screen. An unknown id
            returns 404 rather than falling back.
          schema:
            type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScrollRequest'
            example:
              x: 640
              'y': 400
              direction: down
              amount: 3
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Scroll performed
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActionResponse'
              example:
                success: true
                action: scroll
                details:
                  direction: down
                  amount: 3
                error: null
                error_type: null
        '400':
          description: >-
            The computer has no VM attached, or the computer agent rejected a
            body field of the wrong JSON type.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpstreamError'
              examples:
                no-instance:
                  summary: The computer has no VM attached. Start it first.
                  value:
                    error: Desktop instance not available
                wrong-type:
                  summary: >-
                    The computer agent rejected a body field of the wrong JSON
                    type, such as `amount` sent as a string
                  value:
                    error: 'invalid JSON: …'
                    request_id: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
                    upstream_status: 400
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnauthorizedWithAccess'
        '402':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TrialInactive'
        '404':
          description: >-
            No computer with this id, or `?screen=` names a screen this computer
            does not have.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpstreamError'
              examples:
                no-computer:
                  summary: Unknown computer
                  value:
                    error: Desktop not found
                no-screen:
                  summary: Unknown screen
                  value:
                    error: no screen "2"
                    request_id: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
                    upstream_status: 404
        '500':
          description: >-
            The computer agent could not move the pointer or scroll, or the
            request body is not valid JSON.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpstreamError'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalError'
              examples:
                agent-failed:
                  summary: Rejected by the computer agent
                  value:
                    error: 'moving mouse for scroll: exit status 1'
                    request_id: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
                    upstream_status: 500
        '503':
          description: >-
            The computer could not be reached. It may be resuming, or its host
            may be unhealthy. Retry in a moment. Also returned when the computer
            never finished provisioning.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                anyOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnreachableError'
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalError'
              examples:
                unreachable:
                  summary: Unreachable
                  value:
                    error: Could not reach the desktop. Try again in a moment.
                    request_id: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
                    code: ECONNREFUSED
                not-ready:
                  summary: The computer never finished provisioning
                  value:
                    error: Computer not ready
                    request_id: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
components:
  schemas:
    ScrollRequest:
      type: object
      required:
        - x
        - 'y'
      properties:
        x:
          type: integer
          description: >-
            X coordinate to move the pointer to before scrolling, in pixels from
            the left edge. The pointer is moved before every scroll, so omitting
            this warps it to `x = 0` and scrolls whatever is under that point.
            Always send it.
        'y':
          type: integer
          description: >-
            Y coordinate to move the pointer to before scrolling, in pixels from
            the top edge. The pointer is moved before every scroll, so omitting
            this warps it to `y = 0` and scrolls whatever is under that point.
            Always send it.
        direction:
          type: string
          enum:
            - up
            - down
          default: down
          description: >-
            Scroll direction. Optional. Omitting it scrolls down, and so does
            any value other than the exact string `up`.
        amount:
          type: integer
          default: 1
          description: >-
            Number of wheel clicks. Optional. Omitting it, or sending `0`,
            scrolls once. A negative value moves the pointer, scrolls nothing,
            and still returns `200`.
    ActionResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          description: Always `true` on a `200`. A failed action is an error status.
          example: true
        action:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The action performed: `click`, `mouse_move`, `drag`, `type`,
            `key_press`, `scroll`, or `wait`.
        details:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: Echo of what was performed. Its fields depend on the action.
        error:
          type: 'null'
          description: Always `null` on a `200`.
        error_type:
          type: 'null'
          description: Always `null` on a `200`.
    Error:
      type: object
      description: >-
        The base error body. Every failure carries `error`; individual endpoints
        add the fields named in the schemas below.
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable message.
          example: Access denied
        code:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Machine-readable reason. Present on the failures that define one,
            absent otherwise.
    UpstreamError:
      type: object
      description: >-
        A failure the computer itself returned, relayed with the computer's own
        status.
      required:
        - error
        - request_id
        - upstream_status
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: The message the computer returned.
        request_id:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Correlation id for this failure. The server logged the failure under
            it, so quote it in a support report.
          example: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
        upstream_status:
          type: integer
          description: >-
            The status the computer returned. Mirrors the status of this
            response.
          example: 409
    InternalError:
      type: object
      description: >-
        An unexpected failure. Retrying is reasonable; if it persists, quote
        `request_id`.
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        request_id:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Present on failures raised by a route that talks to a computer.
            Absent on the others.
          example: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
    UnreachableError:
      type: object
      description: >-
        The computer could not be reached. The diagnostic fields, present on the
        command endpoints, say how far the request got.
      required:
        - error
        - request_id
        - code
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          example: Could not reach the desktop. Try again in a moment.
        request_id:
          type: string
          example: 7c1e0f4a-9b2d-4a51-8f0c-2d6b1e93a4c7
        code:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The socket-level error code, or `network_error` when none was
            reported.
          example: ECONNREFUSED
        vm_status:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: The computer's recorded status when the request failed.
        desired_status:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: >-
            The status the computer was being driven towards, when one was
            recorded.
        host_reachable:
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
          description: Whether the host running the computer answered.
        desktop_api_reachable:
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
          description: Whether the computer's own API answered.
        hint:
          type: string
          description: What to do next, given the two reachability results.
  responses:
    UnauthorizedWithAccess:
      description: >-
        No usable credential, or an access check failed. This endpoint runs its
        workspace access checks during authentication, so it answers a missing
        membership, view-only access, or a key scoped to another workspace with
        `401`, not `403`. A server-side fault while verifying the credential
        also returns `401`, with a `Service temporarily unavailable` message.
        Retry that one; the key is fine.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          examples:
            invalid-key:
              summary: The key is not one of yours
              value:
                error: Invalid API key
            no-credential:
              summary: No key and no session
              value:
                error: Authentication required
            no-access:
              summary: Not the owner or a member of the workspace
              value:
                error: You do not have access to this workspace.
            view-only:
              summary: View-only member, and the request changes something
              value:
                error: >-
                  This workspace is view-only. Ask the owner for write access
                  (workspace_read_only).
            scope-mismatch:
              summary: The API key is scoped to another workspace
              value:
                error: >-
                  This API key cannot access this workspace
                  (workspace_scope_mismatch).
            service-unavailable:
              summary: Server-side fault while verifying the credential. Retry.
              value:
                error: >-
                  Service temporarily unavailable. The database is not accepting
                  requests. Retry shortly.
    TrialInactive:
      description: >-
        The computer is a free trial computer whose trial is no longer active,
        or it is paid for by its own subscription or dedicated purchase and that
        payment has lapsed.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          examples:
            trial:
              summary: Trial no longer active
              value:
                error: Choose a plan to continue.
            payment:
              summary: The computer's own payment has lapsed
              value:
                error: Manage this computer’s payment in Account → Usage.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: API key authentication. Get your key at orgo.ai/workspaces

````

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