curl --request POST \
--url https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
--form file='@example-file'import requests
url = "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"
files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.post(url, files=files, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '<string>');
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
options.body = form;
fetch('https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"
payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"task_id": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"exploring": true,
"profiling": true,
"importing": true
}{
"message": "<string>",
"code": "<string>"
}Upload a source file or archive
One file per request, max 2 GiB. Archives (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz) are expanded by the import runtime. Stages the source only — it does not index anything. Curate explicitly with POST /contexts/{slug}/curate before querying.
curl --request POST \
--url https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
--form file='@example-file'import requests
url = "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"
files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.post(url, files=files, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '<string>');
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
options.body = form;
fetch('https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"
payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"task_id": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"exploring": true,
"profiling": true,
"importing": true
}{
"message": "<string>",
"code": "<string>"
}Authorizations
Session token from POST /auth/login. Pass as Authorization: Bearer <token>. The alternative X-Pinecone-Api-Key header is also accepted for direct-key auth (used by the Nexus CLI on first contact).
Headers
Date-based contract version. Omit to resolve to the Nexus default version (2026-07, the oldest served version); send unstable for the in-development surface. The resolved version is echoed back on the same header. A present-but-unrecognized value is rejected with 400 unsupported_api_version.
Path Parameters
Context slug or UUID.
Query Parameters
Subdirectory under the source tree
Body
Response
Upload accepted; import enqueued (state: importing)
The uniform acknowledgment every context-workflow trigger returns. state is the forward-looking status; the per-workflow boolean flags are legacy and set only for the workflows that historically emitted them.
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