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Anthropic Files API

The Files API lets you upload and manage files for reuse across Messages, Batches, code execution, and Managed Agents without re-uploading content. 500 MB request limit; supports PDFs, images, Office documents, and plain text.

Anthropic Files API is one of 29 APIs that Anthropic publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence and File. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and 5 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 10 operations across 6 paths, and defines 28 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.anthropic.com.

10 operations 6 paths 28 schemas 2 DELETE6 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
Base URL
https://api.anthropic.com/v1
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 10

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 2 DELETE, 6 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Files 10
POST
/v1/files
Upload File
upload_file_v1_files_post 1 param body → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files
List Files
list_files_v1_files_get 5 params → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files/{file_id}
Get File Metadata
get_file_metadata_v1_files__file_id__get 3 params → 2004XX
DELETE
/v1/files/{file_id}
Delete File
delete_file_v1_files__file_id__delete 3 params → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files/{file_id}/content
Download File
download_file_v1_files__file_id__content_get 3 params → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files/{file_id}/content?beta=true
Download File
beta_download_file_v1_files__file_id__content_get 4 params → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files/{file_id}?beta=true
Get File Metadata
beta_get_file_metadata_v1_files__file_id__get 4 params → 2004XX
DELETE
/v1/files/{file_id}?beta=true
Delete File
beta_delete_file_v1_files__file_id__delete 4 params → 2004XX
POST
/v1/files?beta=true
Upload File
beta_upload_file_v1_files_post 2 params body → 2004XX
GET
/v1/files?beta=true
List Files
beta_list_files_v1_files_get 7 params → 2004XX

Schemas 28

The contract defines 28 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FileMetadataSchema (8 properties), BetaFileMetadataSchema (8 properties), BetaFileListResponse (4 properties), ErrorResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

AuthenticationError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaInvalidRequestError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaPermissionError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaRateLimitError
object
2 properties 2 required
InvalidRequestError
object
2 properties 2 required
FileListResponse
object
2 properties 1 required
BetaFileListResponse
object
4 properties 1 required
BetaNotFoundError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaOverloadedError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaAuthenticationError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaFileMetadataSchema
object
8 properties 6 required
APIError
object
2 properties 2 required
PermissionError
object
2 properties 2 required
FileDeleteResponse
object
2 properties 1 required
GatewayTimeoutError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaBillingError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaGatewayTimeoutError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaAPIError
object
2 properties 2 required
BillingError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaFileScope
object
2 properties 2 required
FileMetadataSchema
object
8 properties 6 required
AnthropicBeta
ErrorResponse
object
3 properties 3 required
RateLimitError
object
2 properties 2 required
OverloadedError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaFileDeleteResponse
object
2 properties 1 required
NotFoundError
object
2 properties 2 required
BetaErrorResponse
object
3 properties 3 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

anthropic-files-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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