Extract File Content

Extract text content from supported file types.

POST /v0/files/{id}/extract

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.getagentdrive.com/v0/files/file_xyz789/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

200

{
  "content": "Annual Report 2026\n\nExecutive Summary\nThis report covers the fiscal year...",
  "mime_type": "text/plain"
}

Extracts text content from files with supported MIME types including text/*, application/json, and text/csv.

Path Parameters

id · string · required

The unique identifier of the file to extract content from.

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.getagentdrive.com/v0/files/file_xyz789/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

200

{
  "content": "Annual Report 2026\n\nExecutive Summary\nThis report covers the fiscal year...",
  "mime_type": "text/plain"
}

200 JSON file

{
  "content": {
    "name": "config",
    "version": "1.0",
    "settings": { "debug": false }
  },
  "mime_type": "application/json"
}

Response

content · string | object

The extracted content. Returns a string for text files and a parsed object for JSON files.

mime_type · string

The MIME type of the extracted content.