> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ingest Knowledge (alpha)

> Ingest knowledge into the copilot.

<Warning>
  **Important**: This endpoint is in alpha and may change in the future. please report any issues or feedback to the [issue tracker](https://github.com/openchatai/OpenCopilot/issues/new/choose).
</Warning>

<Warning>
  **Important**: this endpoint only supports URLs, if you have a local file that you want to ingest, you can upload it to a cloud storage service and provide the URL to the file.
</Warning>

# Ingest Knowledge

Knowledge is any information that the copilot can use to answer questions. as for now, the copilot can ingest knowledge in the following formats:

* Website: when you provide a URL, the copilot will scrape the content of the website recursively and ingest the content into its knowledge base, you can also provide a list of URLs to scrape.
* Files: you can provide a list of files to ingest, the copilot will ingest the content of the files into its knowledge base, currently, the copilot supports the following file types:
  * PDF
  * Markdown

<RequestExample>
  ```bash Example Request
  curl --location 'http://localhost:8888/backend/knowldgebase/:bot_id' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
        "sources": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding", "https://example.com/file.pdf"]
    }'
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json Response
  [
      {
         "message": "Knowledge has been queued for ingestion"
      }
  ]
  ```
</ResponseExample>