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Vector Stores

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Retrieve vector store file content

GET/vector_stores/{vector_store_id}/files/{file_id}/content

Retrieve the parsed contents of a vector store file.

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

vector_store_id: string

file_id: string

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data: array of object { text, type }

Parsed content of the file.

text: optional string

The text content

type: optional string

The content type (currently only "text")

has_more: boolean

Indicates if there are more content pages to fetch.

next_page: string or null

The token for the next page, if any.

object: "vector_store.file_content.page"

The object type, which is always vector_store.file_content.page

Retrieve vector store file content

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CLI Tool

curl \
https://api.openai.com/v1/vector_stores/vs_abc123/files/file-abc123/content \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

{
  "file_id": "file-abc123",
  "filename": "example.txt",
  "attributes": {"key": "value"},
  "content": [
    {"type": "text", "text": "..."},
    ...
  ]
}

Returns Examples

{
  "file_id": "file-abc123",
  "filename": "example.txt",
  "attributes": {"key": "value"},
  "content": [
    {"type": "text", "text": "..."},
    ...
  ]
}