Mendable Ingestion API

Ingest and track data sources.

Operations 3

POST /ingestData Ingest a data source by URL #
POST /ingestDocuments Ingest raw documents #
POST /ingestionStatus Check ingestion task status #

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OpenAPI Specification

mendable-ingestion-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Mendable Chat Ingestion API
  description: REST API for the Mendable AI answers and enterprise search platform. Create conversations, ask grounded questions over ingested documentation and knowledge sources (with Server-Sent Events streaming), ingest and manage data sources, and rate answers. All endpoints authenticate with a Mendable api_key passed in the JSON request body; a Bearer token is also accepted.
  termsOfService: https://www.mendable.ai/terms
  contact:
    name: Mendable Support
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai
    email: help@firecrawl.com
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.mendable.ai/v1
  description: Mendable production API
security:
- apiKeyBody: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Ingestion
  description: Ingest and track data sources.
paths:
  /ingestData:
    post:
      operationId: ingestData
      tags:
      - Ingestion
      summary: Ingest a data source by URL
      description: Ingests a website, sitemap, GitHub repo, Docusaurus site, YouTube transcript, or single URL into the project. Returns a task_id used to poll ingestion status.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestDataRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Ingestion started.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestTaskResponse'
        '400':
          description: Missing or invalid api_key, or missing url.
  /ingestDocuments:
    post:
      operationId: ingestDocuments
      tags:
      - Ingestion
      summary: Ingest raw documents
      description: Ingests up to 500 raw documents (2MB per request) with optional metadata and processing options such as summarization. Returns a task_id.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestDocumentsRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Ingestion started.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestTaskResponse'
        '400':
          description: Missing or invalid api_key, or invalid documents payload.
  /ingestionStatus:
    post:
      operationId: ingestionStatus
      tags:
      - Ingestion
      summary: Check ingestion task status
      description: Returns the current step, status, and completion metrics for an ingestion task identified by task_id.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestionStatusRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Current ingestion task status.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestionStatusResponse'
        '400':
          description: Missing or invalid api_key, or missing task_id.
components:
  schemas:
    IngestTaskResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        task_id:
          type: integer
          description: Identifier used to poll ingestion status.
    IngestionStatusResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        step:
          type: string
          description: Current ingestion step.
        status:
          type: string
          description: Current task status.
        completion:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: Completion metrics.
    IngestionStatusRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - api_key
      - task_id
      properties:
        api_key:
          type: string
        task_id:
          type: integer
    IngestDocumentsRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - api_key
      - documents
      properties:
        api_key:
          type: string
          description: Server-side Mendable API key.
        documents:
          type: array
          description: Up to 500 raw documents (2MB per request).
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              content:
                type: string
              metadata:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        options:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: Processing options such as summarization.
    IngestDataRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - api_key
      - url
      properties:
        api_key:
          type: string
          description: Server-side Mendable API key.
        url:
          type: string
          description: Target location for data ingestion.
        type:
          type: string
          description: Ingestion method.
          default: website-crawler
          enum:
          - website-crawler
          - docusaurus
          - github
          - youtube
          - url
          - sitemap
        include_paths:
          type: array
          description: Paths to include during a website-crawler crawl.
          items:
            type: string
        exclude_paths:
          type: array
          description: Paths to exclude during a website-crawler crawl.
          items:
            type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyBody:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: Mendable api_key. Sent as the api_key field inside the JSON request body for every endpoint (modeled here as apiKey for tooling).
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Mendable api_key supplied as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.