Vectara Documents API

Upload, index, retrieve, update, and delete documents in a corpus.

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vectara-documents-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Vectara REST Agents Documents API
  description: 'Vectara REST API v2 is the unified interface for the Vectara Retrieval Augmented

    Generation (RAG) platform. It exposes endpoints for managing corpora, uploading

    and indexing documents, running semantic and hybrid queries with grounded

    generation, managing agents, tools, pipelines, generation presets, and reading

    metadata.


    This OpenAPI 3.1 description is hand-curated from the public Vectara REST API

    documentation at https://docs.vectara.com/docs/rest-api/ and the published

    OpenAPI document at https://docs.vectara.com/vectara-oas-v2.yaml. It covers a

    representative subset of endpoints across corpora, documents, query, agents,

    tools, pipelines, and OAuth.

    '
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Vectara Support
    url: https://docs.vectara.com/docs/support
  license:
    name: Proprietary
servers:
- url: https://api.vectara.io
  description: Vectara REST API production base URL
- url: https://auth.vectara.io
  description: Vectara OAuth 2.0 token endpoint
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- OAuth2: []
tags:
- name: Documents
  description: Upload, index, retrieve, update, and delete documents in a corpus.
paths:
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/upload_file:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Upload A File
      description: Upload an unstructured file (PDF, DOCX, HTML, etc.) to be parsed and indexed.
      operationId: uploadFile
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          multipart/form-data:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                file:
                  type: string
                  format: binary
                metadata:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '201':
          description: File uploaded and indexing started.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/documents:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    get:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: List Corpus Documents
      operationId: listDocuments
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: limit
        schema:
          type: integer
      - in: query
        name: page_key
        schema:
          type: string
      - in: query
        name: metadata_filter
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of documents.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListDocumentsResponse'
    post:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Add A Structured (Core) Document
      operationId: addDocument
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Document created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
    delete:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Bulk Delete Documents
      operationId: bulkDeleteDocuments
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: metadata_filter
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Documents deleted.
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/documents/{document_id}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/DocumentId'
    get:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Retrieve A Document
      operationId: getDocument
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Document.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
    patch:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Update Document Metadata
      operationId: updateDocument
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                metadata:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Document updated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
    delete:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Delete A Document
      operationId: deleteDocument
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Document deleted.
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/documents/{document_id}/summarize:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/DocumentId'
    post:
      tags:
      - Documents
      summary: Summarize A Document
      operationId: summarizeDocument
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                llm_name:
                  type: string
                prompt_name:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Summary.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  summary:
                    type: string
components:
  schemas:
    Document:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - core
          - structured
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        document_parts:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              text:
                type: string
              metadata:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
    PageMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        page_key:
          type: string
        next_page_key:
          type: string
    ListDocumentsResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        documents:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Document'
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageMetadata'
  parameters:
    CorpusKey:
      in: path
      name: corpus_key
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: The unique key identifying a corpus.
    DocumentId:
      in: path
      name: document_id
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: The unique identifier of a document.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: Vectara API key passed in the `x-api-key` header.
    OAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow.
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://auth.vectara.io/oauth2/token
          scopes: {}