Create File

1 curl -X POST https://api.extend.ai/files \ 2 -H "x-extend-api-version: 2025-04-21" \ 3 -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \ 4 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ 5 -d '{ 6 "name": "foo" 7 }'

1 { 2 "success": true, 3 "file": { 4 "object": "file", 5 "id": "file_xK9mLPqRtN3vS8wF5hB2cQ", 6 "name": "Invoices.pdf", 7 "metadata": { 8 "pageCount": 30, 9 "parentSplit": { 10 "id": "foo", 11 "type": "Invoice", 12 "identifier": "other_2_9", 13 "startPage": 1, 14 "endPage": 10 15 } 16 }, 17 "createdAt": "2024-03-21T15:30:00Z", 18 "updatedAt": "2024-03-21T16:45:00Z", 19 "type": "PDF", 20 "presignedUrl": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf", 21 "parentFileId": "file_Zk9mNP12Qw4yTv8BdR3H", 22 "contents": { 23 "rawText": "foo", 24 "markdown": "foo", 25 "pages": [ 26 { 27 "pageNumber": 1, 28 "pageHeight": 10, 29 "pageWidth": 10, 30 "rawText": "This is the raw text of the page.", 31 "markdown": "# Heading\n\nThis is a paragraph with **bold** and *italic* text.\n\n- List item 1\n- List item 2\n\n> This is a blockquote", 32 "html": "<div>This is the html of the page.</div>" 33 } 34 ], 35 "sheets": [ 36 { 37 "sheetName": "Sheet1", 38 "rawText": "This is the raw text of the sheet." 39 } 40 ] 41 } 42 } 43 }

Create a new file in Extend for use in an evaluation set. This endpoint is deprecated, use /files/upload instead.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

namestringRequired

The name of the file

urlstringOptional

A pre signed URL for the file

rawTextstringOptional

The raw text content of the file

mediaTypestringOptional

The media type of the file (e.g. application/pdf)

Response

Successfully created file

successbooleanOptional

fileobjectOptional

Create File

Headers

Request

Response

Errors