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# webbox-snapshots create

> Create Web Box Snapshot

Starts an asynchronous build and returns the Web Box Snapshot with status pending. Get the Snapshot until its status is ready, failed or canceled; Web Boxes start from a ready one. The build runs in real time: the builder and QA use the vendor's live web app through its login credential, and the built app has no simulated clock. Builds queue with Simulator builds and count toward the same quotas. Send multipart/form-data with a JSON part named request and optional file parts named document with vendor documentation.

```bash theme={null}
continuous webbox-snapshots create [flags]
```

## Examples

```bash theme={null}
continuous webbox-snapshots create
```

## Flags

**--document** `string`

Vendor documentation the builder and reviewer read before they start, as repeated file parts: UTF-8 text (.md, .txt, .html, .json, .yaml, .xml, .csv) or PDF (.pdf). The documents share the request body limit.

**--idempotency-key, -i** `string`

Optional key for retrying this create safely. A retry with the same key and request returns the original result with its status; the same key with a different request returns 409 idempotency\_conflict. Without a key, each request creates a new resource. The key is recorded before the build starts, so a retry never starts a second build.

**--request, -r** `string` *required*

Request as JSON

Global flags apply to every command. See [Global flags](https://docs.continuouslabs.ai/cli/global-flags.md).


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