For guidance and examples, see [Import data](/guides/index-data-import-data).

:::callout{intent="note"}
This feature is in [public preview](/guides/changelog-feature-availability) and available only on [Standard and Enterprise plans](https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/).
:::

```bash curl theme={null}
# To get the unique host for an index,
# see https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-data/target-an-index
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
INDEX_HOST="INDEX_HOST"

curl "https://$INDEX_HOST/bulk/imports" \
  -H 'Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10' \
  -d '{
        "integrationId": "a12b3d4c-47d2-492c-a97a-dd98c8dbefde",
        "uri": "s3://BUCKET_NAME/PATH/TO/DIR",
        "errorMode": {
            "onError": "continue"
            }
        }'
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
   "id": "101"
}
```

`POST /bulk/imports`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{index_host}/bulk/imports \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "integrationId": "<string>",
  "uri": "<string>",
  "errorMode": {
    "onError": "<string>"
  }
}'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "id": "101"
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Body

- `integrationId` (body, string) — The id of the [storage integration](/guides/operations-integrations-manage-storage-integrations) that should be used to access the data.
- `uri` (body, string, required) — The URI of the bucket (or container) and import directory containing the namespaces and Parquet files you want to import. For example, `s3://BUCKET_NAME/IMPORT_DIR` for Amazon S3, `gs://BUCKET_NAME/IMPORT_DIR` for Google Cloud Storage, or `https://STORAGE_ACCOUNT.blob.core.windows.net/CONTAINER_NAME/IMPORT_DIR` for Azure Blob Storage. For more information, see \[Import records]\(https://docs.pinecon
- `errorMode` (body, object) — Indicates how to respond to errors during the import process.

## Response

- `200` — Successful import operation
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `4XX` — An unexpected error response.
- `5XX` — An unexpected error response.

## Related pages

- [Start import](./database-2026-07-data-plane-start-import.md)
- [List imports](./database-2026-07-data-plane-list-imports.md)
- [Describe an import](./database-2026-07-data-plane-describe-import.md)
- [Cancel an import](./database-2026-07-data-plane-cancel-import.md)
- [Start import](./database-2026-04-data-plane-start-import.md)
- [List imports](./database-2026-04-data-plane-list-imports.md)
- [Describe an import](./database-2026-04-data-plane-describe-import.md)
- [Cancel an import](./database-2026-04-data-plane-cancel-import.md)
- [List imports](./database-2025-10-data-plane-list-imports.md)
- [Describe an import](./database-2025-10-data-plane-describe-import.md)

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