post https://api.voiceflow.com/v1/knowledge-base/docs/upload
Uploads a document to the Knowledge Base. Supports uploading documents of types "pdf", "text", "docx" via multipart/form-data. Limit is one document per call.
Request Fields
| Property | Description & Example |
|---|---|
| Content-Type (header) | multipart/form-data |
| overwrite (query parameter) | Optional - Specify whether to overwrite existing data (optional). "True" means you want to overwrite. |
| maxChunkSize (query parameter) | Optional - Determine how granularly each document is broken up. Max chunk size affects the total amount of chunks parsed from a document. (i.e. larger chunks means less chunks retrieved) Smaller chunk size means: - narrower context - faster response - less tokens consumed - greater risk of less accurate answerstype: integer ; default: 1000; Range available is 500-1500 tokens. Once uploaded, you can view the chunks using the GET Document Chunk Retrieval Knowledge Base API. |
| file (body, form-data) | Accepted source document types for this endpoint are: pdf, text, or docx. |
Example
Sample Response
{
"data": {
"documentID": "6515dccab4bc5400060fbc6a",
"data": {
"type": "pdf",
"name": "Learn-to-Sail.pdf"
},
"updatedAt": "2023-09-28T20:06:34.049Z",
"status": {
"type": "PENDING"
},
"tags": [
"beginner"
]
}
}