> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dify.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # List Document Files > Lists the document files stored in a knowledge base. Returns document file IDs, not document IDs. [List Documents](/en/api-reference/documents-and-chunks/list-documents) lists the documents. Nothing on a document file says whether the knowledge base still serves it. A revision's `state` says that, on [List Document Revisions](/en/api-reference/documents-and-chunks/list-document-revisions), which takes the document ID. For how document IDs and document file IDs relate, see [Browse Documents and Chunks](/en/api-reference/guides/knowledge-base#browse-documents-and-chunks). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /en/api-reference/openapi_service.json get /knowledge-fs/spaces/{knowledge_base_id}/documents openapi: 3.0.1 info: description: >- REST API for Dify applications and knowledge bases. Application endpoints authenticate with an app API key; knowledge endpoints authenticate with a dataset API key. title: Dify Service API version: 1.0.0 servers: - description: >- Base URL of the Dify Service API. For self-hosted deployments, replace it with your own API base URL. url: https://{api_base_url} variables: api_base_url: default: api.dify.ai/v1 description: Host and path of the API base URL, without the `https://` prefix. security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - description: Operations related to chat messages and interactions. name: Chat Messages - description: File upload and preview operations. name: Files - description: Operations related to end user information. name: End Users - description: User feedback operations. name: Feedback - description: Operations related to managing conversations. name: Conversations - description: Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text operations. name: Audio - description: Operations to retrieve application settings and information. name: Applications - description: Operations related to managing annotations for direct replies. name: Annotations - description: Endpoints for resuming paused workflows that require human input. name: Human Input - description: Operations for executing and managing workflows. name: Workflow Runs - description: Operations related to text generation and completion. name: Completion Messages - description: >- Operations for managing knowledge bases, including creation, configuration, and retrieval. name: Knowledge Bases - description: >- Operations for creating, updating, and managing documents within a knowledge base. name: Documents - description: Operations for managing document chunks and child chunks. name: Chunks - description: >- Operations for managing knowledge base metadata fields and document metadata values. name: Metadata - description: Operations for managing knowledge base tags and tag bindings. name: Tags - description: Operations for retrieving available models. name: Models - description: >- Operations for managing and running knowledge pipelines, including datasource plugins and pipeline execution. name: Knowledge Pipeline - description: Ask a knowledge base a question and stream the answer. name: Queries - description: Inspect what a query retrieved and why. name: Query Records - description: Run a research question in the background and collect its results. name: Research Tasks - description: >- Read the documents in a knowledge base, their files, revisions, and chunks; label documents with metadata. name: Documents and Chunks - description: >- Follow, cancel, or retry indexing, and list the knowledge base's background tasks. name: Indexing Tasks - description: >- Follow the deletion of a document file, a batch of files, or a source until it finishes. name: Deletion Jobs - description: >- Manage the sources that feed a knowledge base, their sync schedules, and their connections. name: Sources - description: >- Sync a source now, import website pages or provider items, and follow, cancel, or retry the runs. name: Source Syncs and Imports - description: >- Read and change the knowledge base's models and retrieval settings, and follow the migration a change starts. name: Settings paths: /knowledge-fs/spaces/{knowledge_base_id}/documents: get: tags: - Documents and Chunks summary: List Document Files description: >- Lists the document files stored in a knowledge base. Returns document file IDs, not document IDs. [List Documents](/en/api-reference/documents-and-chunks/list-documents) lists the documents. Nothing on a document file says whether the knowledge base still serves it. A revision's `state` says that, on [List Document Revisions](/en/api-reference/documents-and-chunks/list-document-revisions), which takes the document ID. For how document IDs and document file IDs relate, see [Browse Documents and Chunks](/en/api-reference/guides/knowledge-base#browse-documents-and-chunks). operationId: listDocumentFiles parameters: - description: >- Knowledge base ID: the last segment of the Service API endpoint shown in the knowledge base's **API Access** dialog (`…/knowledge-fs/spaces/`), and the segment after `/datasets/new/` in the address bar. in: path name: knowledge_base_id required: true schema: format: uuid type: string - description: Cursor from the previous page's `next_cursor`. in: query name: cursor required: false schema: maxLength: 1000 minLength: 1 type: string - description: Document files per page. in: query name: limit required: false schema: default: 50 maximum: 100 minimum: 1 type: integer responses: '200': content: application/json: examples: success: summary: Response Example value: data: - created_at: '2026-09-01T08:12:45Z' filename: handbook-2026-08.pdf id: 4b81d2c6-0e5f-4a73-9c8b-5d6e7f8a9b0c knowledge_space_id: 9b2e5b7a-3c1d-4e2f-8a9b-1c2d3e4f5a6b metadata: {} mime_type: application/pdf object_key: >- 1a7c9e40-2b3d-4f56-8a90-b1c2d3e4f506/spaces/9b2e5b7a-3c1d-4e2f-8a9b-1c2d3e4f5a6b/documents/4b81d2c6-0e5f-4a73-9c8b-5d6e7f8a9b0c/handbook-2026-08.pdf parser_status: parsed sha256: >- b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c size_bytes: 471002 source_id: null updated_at: null version: 1 - created_at: '2026-09-03T10:02:11Z' filename: handbook.pdf id: 6ec0bd7f-11c0-43da-975e-2a8ad9ebae0b knowledge_space_id: 9b2e5b7a-3c1d-4e2f-8a9b-1c2d3e4f5a6b metadata: {} mime_type: application/pdf object_key: >- 1a7c9e40-2b3d-4f56-8a90-b1c2d3e4f506/spaces/9b2e5b7a-3c1d-4e2f-8a9b-1c2d3e4f5a6b/documents/6ec0bd7f-11c0-43da-975e-2a8ad9ebae0b/handbook.pdf parser_status: parsed sha256: >- 9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08 size_bytes: 482113 source_id: null updated_at: null version: 1 next_cursor: null schema: properties: data: description: >- One page of document files, ordered by document file ID, ascending. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/KnowledgeBaseDocumentFile' type: array next_cursor: description: >- Cursor for the next page, or `null` on the last page. Send it back as `cursor`. nullable: true type: string type: object description: One page of document files. '400': content: application/json: examples: knowledge_fs_invalid_request_local: summary: knowledge_fs_invalid_request (request validation) value: code: knowledge_fs_invalid_request message: Agent Knowledge Base request is invalid. status: 400 violations: - field: - limit type: less_than_equal knowledge_fs_invalid_request_upstream: summary: knowledge_fs_invalid_request (rejected) value: code: knowledge_fs_invalid_request failure: category: validation code: KNOWLEDGE_FS_INVALID_REQUEST message: The Agent Knowledge Base request is invalid. retryPolicy: never traceId: 7f3c1a90-2e64-4b7d-8a51-6c0d9e2f4b83 message: The Agent Knowledge Base request is invalid. status: 400 description: >- - `knowledge_fs_invalid_request`: the request failed validation. `violations` names each failing field. - `knowledge_fs_invalid_request`: `cursor` is not a UUID. '401': content: application/json: examples: knowledge_fs_invalid_credential: summary: knowledge_fs_invalid_credential value: code: knowledge_fs_invalid_credential message: Invalid Agent Knowledge Base service credential. status: 401 unauthorized: summary: unauthorized value: code: unauthorized message: Access token is invalid status: 401 description: >- - `unauthorized`: the `Authorization` header is missing, or the key is unknown or not a knowledge base API key. - `knowledge_fs_invalid_credential`: the key is valid, but no knowledge base with this ID exists in the key's workspace, or the key is not tied to a workspace. '403': content: application/json: examples: forbidden: summary: forbidden (rate limit) value: code: forbidden message: >- Sorry, you have reached the knowledge base request rate limit of your subscription. status: 403 knowledge_fs_access_denied_scope: summary: knowledge_fs_access_denied (key scope) value: code: knowledge_fs_access_denied message: Agent Knowledge Base operation is not allowed. status: 403 knowledge_fs_access_denied_upstream: summary: knowledge_fs_access_denied (rejected) value: code: knowledge_fs_access_denied failure: action: contact_admin category: authorization code: KNOWLEDGE_FS_ACCESS_DENIED message: >- You do not have permission to perform this Agent Knowledge Base operation. retryPolicy: never traceId: 7f3c1a90-2e64-4b7d-8a51-6c0d9e2f4b83 message: >- You do not have permission to perform this Agent Knowledge Base operation. status: 403 description: >- - `knowledge_fs_access_denied`: the key is scoped to other knowledge bases, **API access** is off for this knowledge base, or the knowledge base is not active. - `knowledge_fs_access_denied`: the key has no access to this knowledge base's content. - `forbidden`: on Dify Cloud, the workspace has reached the knowledge base request rate limit of its subscription. Every call counts, reads included. '404': content: application/json: examples: knowledge_fs_resource_not_found: summary: knowledge_fs_resource_not_found value: code: knowledge_fs_resource_not_found failure: category: not_found code: KNOWLEDGE_FS_NOT_FOUND message: >- The requested Agent Knowledge Base resource was not found. retryPolicy: never traceId: 7f3c1a90-2e64-4b7d-8a51-6c0d9e2f4b83 message: The requested Agent Knowledge Base resource was not found. status: 404 not_found: summary: not_found (feature off) value: code: not_found message: >- The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. status: 404 description: >- - `knowledge_fs_resource_not_found`: the knowledge base ID isn't recognized. - `not_found`: the Agent Knowledge Base feature is turned off on this deployment. '502': content: application/json: examples: knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable: summary: knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable (service error) value: code: knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable failure: action: contact_admin category: internal code: KNOWLEDGE_FS_INTERNAL_ERROR message: >- Agent Knowledge Base could not complete the operation. Try again, or contact an administrator with the error reference. retryPolicy: manual traceId: 5e2a9c17-3b4d-4f60-8a1b-2c3d4e5f6a7b message: >- Agent Knowledge Base could not complete the operation. Try again, or contact an administrator with the error reference. status: 502 knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable_transport: summary: knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable (no response) value: code: knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable message: Agent Knowledge Base is unavailable. status: 502 description: >- - `knowledge_fs_upstream_unavailable`: no answer came back in time, or the answer couldn't be read. Retry after a pause. '503': content: application/json: examples: knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable: summary: knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable value: code: knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable message: Agent Knowledge Base operation is not available. status: 503 knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable_upstream: summary: knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable (temporary) value: code: knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable failure: action: retry category: dependency code: KNOWLEDGE_FS_UNAVAILABLE message: >- A service required by Agent Knowledge Base is temporarily unavailable. retryPolicy: manual traceId: 5e2a9c17-3b4d-4f60-8a1b-2c3d4e5f6a7b message: >- A service required by Agent Knowledge Base is temporarily unavailable. status: 503 description: >- - `knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable`: the Agent Knowledge Base feature is not set up for this workspace, this operation is not available on the deployment, or the key's access to this knowledge base changed while the request was being authorized. - `knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable`: the request can't be served right now. Follow `failure.retryPolicy`. - `knowledge_fs_operation_unavailable`: the request gave up before it could fill a page, which happens when most files are hidden from this key. A retry with the same key meets the same limit. Use a key that can read more of the knowledge base. The body carries `failure` with `KNOWLEDGE_FS_UNAVAILABLE`. components: schemas: KnowledgeBaseDocumentFile: properties: created_at: description: When the file was stored, ISO 8601. type: string filename: description: Original file name. type: string id: description: >- Document file ID. Different from the document ID in the address bar of the open document in Dify. type: string knowledge_space_id: description: >- Internal ID of the knowledge base. Not the knowledge base ID in the path. type: string metadata: additionalProperties: true description: Metadata recorded with the file when it was uploaded or imported. type: object mime_type: description: MIME type of the file. type: string object_key: description: >- Key of the file in object storage. No operation in this API returns the file's content. type: string parser_status: description: >- Parse state of this version of the file: `pending`, `parsed`, or `failed`. Parsing is one step of indexing. A `parsed` file can still have no outline and no chunks. type: string sha256: description: SHA-256 hash of the file content, hex-encoded. type: string size_bytes: description: File size in bytes. type: integer source_id: description: >- ID of the source the file was imported from. `null` for uploaded files. nullable: true type: string updated_at: description: >- When the file record last changed, ISO 8601. `null` when it has not changed since creation. nullable: true type: string version: description: >- Always `1` for this file ID. A content update, including a source sync, creates a different file ID rather than incrementing this value. This is separate from the document's content revision. Send it as `expectedRevision` to [Delete Document File](/en/api-reference/documents-and-chunks/delete-document-file). type: integer type: object securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: bearerFormat: API_KEY description: >- Every request authenticates with an API key: `Authorization: Bearer {API_KEY}`. App endpoints take an app API key; knowledge endpoints take a knowledge base API key ([Get Started](/en/api-reference/guides/get-started)). Keep keys server-side; never embed them in client code. Requests with a missing or invalid key fail with HTTP `401` (`unauthorized`). scheme: bearer type: http ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.