# List Files

For guidance and examples, see [Manage files](/guides/upload-your-data-manage-files#list-files-in-an-assistant).

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
ASSISTANT_NAME="example-assistant"

curl -X GET "https://prod-1-data.ke.pinecone.io/assistant/files/$ASSISTANT_NAME" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10"
```

`GET /files/{assistant_name}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request GET \
  --url https://{assistant_host}/files/{assistant_name} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "files": [
    {
      "name": "<string>",
      "id": "<string>",
      "metadata": {},
      "created_on": "<string>",
      "updated_on": "<string>",
      "status": "<string>",
      "percent_done": 123,
      "signed_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/file.pdf?...",
      "error_message": "<string>",
      "multimodal": true
    }
  ]
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

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

## Path Parameters

- `assistant_name` (path, string, required) — The name of the assistant to list files for.

## Query Parameters

- `filter` (query, string) — Optional JSON-encoded metadata filter for files.

## Headers

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

## Response

- `200` — This operation returns a list of all files that you have previously uploaded, and which are associated with the given assistant name.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `404` — Assistant not found.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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