curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/knowledge-base/documentation-id/chunk/chunk-id?embedding_model=e5_mistral_7b_instruct' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/convai/knowledge-base/{documentation_id}/chunk/{chunk_id} (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get Documentation Chunk From Knowledge Base

## 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 GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/knowledge-base/documentation-id/chunk/chunk-id?embedding_model=e5_mistral_7b_instruct' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| documentation_id | path | string | Yes | The id of a document from the knowledge base. This is ret... |
| chunk_id | path | string | Yes | The id of a document RAG chunk from the knowledge base. |
| embedding_model | query | string | No | The embedding model used to retrieve the chunk. |

## Response (200 OK)
{"id":"string","name":"string","content":"string"}

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GET

/v1/convai/knowledge-base/{documentation_id}/chunk/{chunk_id}

ElevenLabs API

Get Documentation Chunk From Knowledge Base

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 223 tokens · Vary: Accept

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 GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/knowledge-base/documentation-id/chunk/chunk-id?embedding_model=e5_mistral_7b_instruct' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
documentation_id	path	string	Yes	The id of a document from the knowledge base. This is returned on document addition.
chunk_id	path	string	Yes	The id of a document RAG chunk from the knowledge base.
embedding_model	query	string	No	The embedding model used to retrieve the chunk.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "content": "string"
}