# POST /v1/convai/knowledge-base/crawl (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Create Crawl Job

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/knowledge-base/crawl' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"string","max_depth":3}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| url | body | string | Yes | URL to a page of documentation that t... |
| max_depth | body | integer | No | Maximum depth for crawling (1-5), def... |
| max_pages | body | integer | No | Maximum number of pages to crawl (1-1... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"id":"string","type":"discovery"}

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