# Upload a source file or archive

`POST /contexts/{slug}/import/upload`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>'
```

```python title="Python"
import requests

url = "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

```javascript title="JavaScript"
const options = {method: "POST", headers: {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>"}};

fetch("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload", options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

```php title="PHP"
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

```go title="Go"
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```java title="Java"
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/import/upload")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
  .asString();
```

```ruby title="Ruby"
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["X-Pinecone-Api-Version"] = '<x-pinecone-api-version>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```
:::

:::code-group
```json title="200"
{
  "task_id": "<string>",
  "state": "<string>",
  "exploring": true,
  "profiling": true,
  "importing": true
}
```

```json title="404"
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "code": "<string>"
}
```
:::

#### Authorizations

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Authorization` | `string` | - |  |

Session token from `POST /auth/login`, sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.

#### Headers

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pinecone-Api-Version?` | `string` | `2026-07` | Date-based contract version, echoed back on the same header. Omit for the default (2026-07); send unstable for the in-development surface. An unrecognized value is rejected with 400 unsupported_api_version. |

#### Path Parameters

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `slug` | `string` | - | Context slug or UUID. |

#### Query Parameters

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `path?` | `string` | `uploads` | Subdirectory under the source tree |

#### Body

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `file` | `string` | - | File bytes. Archives are expanded by the import runtime. |

#### Response

`200` — Upload accepted; import enqueued (`state: importing`)

What every context-workflow trigger returns. The work is asynchronous: poll `GET /tasks/{task_id}`. The per-workflow booleans duplicate `state` and appear only where a workflow's contract names one.

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `task_id` | `string` | - | The enqueued task. Poll it at GET /tasks/id. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `state` | `string` | - | The forward-looking status the trigger put the context into. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `exploring?` | `boolean` | - | Duplicates state; present only for explore |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `profiling?` | `boolean` | - | Duplicates state; present only for profile |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `importing?` | `boolean` | - | Duplicates state; present only for the import/curate triggers |

## Related pages

- [Import source documents from a project connector](./data-plane-source-files-import-source-documents-from-a-project-connector.md)
- [List the source file tree (root)](./data-plane-source-files-list-the-source-file-tree-root.md)
- [Source file/dir/size counts](./data-plane-source-files-source-filedirsize-counts.md)
- [Flat manifest of source files (path, size, last_modified)](./data-plane-source-files-flat-manifest-of-source-files-path-size-last-modified.md)
- [List the source file tree under a path](./data-plane-source-files-list-the-source-file-tree-under-a-path.md)
- [Read a source file (raw bytes)](./data-plane-source-files-read-a-source-file-raw-bytes.md)
- [Delete a source file](./data-plane-source-files-delete-a-source-file.md)

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