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# Cancelling a Subscription

This section provides step-by-step guides to canceling stream subscriptions using each supported protocol: Websocket and gRPC.

Websocket

If you need to cancel a subscription, pass the subscription ID to the **`unsubscribe`** call.

#### **Example**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Gateway" %}
Unsubscribe call example for the Gateway in Python (version 3.7 or higher):

```python
import asyncio, ssl, json, websockets

async def main():
    auth_key = "YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER"
    
    async with websockets.connect(
        'ws://127.0.0.1:28333/ws',
        header=["Authorization:{}".format(auth_key)],            
        sslopt={"cert_reqs": ssl.CERT_NONE},        
        ) as websocket:
            subscribe_request = {
                "jsonrpc": "2.0",
                "id": 1,
                "method": "subscribe",
                "params": ["newTxs", {"include": ["tx_hash"]}]
            }
            await websocket.send(json.dumps(subscribe_request))
            response = await websocket.recv()
            subscription_id = json.loads(response)["result"]
    
            unsubscribe_request = {
                "jsonrpc": "2.0",
                "id": 2,
                "method": "unsubscribe",
                "params": [subscription_id]
            }
            await websocket.send(json.dumps(unsubscribe_request))
            response = await websocket.recv()
            print("Unsubscribed successfully.")
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Cloud-API" %}
Unsubscribe call example for the Cloud-API in Python (version 3.7 or higher):

```python
import asyncio, ssl, json, websockets

async def main():
    auth_key = "YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER"
    
    async with websockets.connect(
        'wss://virginia.eth.blxrbdn.com/ws',
        header=["Authorization:{}".format(auth_key)],            
        sslopt={"cert_reqs": ssl.CERT_NONE},        
        ) as websocket:
            subscribe_request = {
                "jsonrpc": "2.0",
                "id": 1,
                "method": "subscribe",
                "params": ["newTxs", {"include": ["tx_hash"]}]
            }
            await websocket.send(json.dumps(subscribe_request))
            response = await websocket.recv()
            subscription_id = json.loads(response)["result"]
    
            unsubscribe_request = {
                "jsonrpc": "2.0",
                "id": 2,
                "method": "unsubscribe",
                "params": [subscription_id]
            }
            await websocket.send(json.dumps(unsubscribe_request))
            response = await websocket.recv()
    
            print("Unsubscribed successfully.")
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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