curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/knowledge-base/search?query=example-query&page_size=30&types=example&cursor=example-cursor' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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

> Search Knowledge Base Content

## 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/search?query=example-query&page_size=30&types=example&cursor=example-cursor' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| query | query | string | Yes | The search query text |
| page_size | query | integer | No | How many documents to return at maxim... |
| types | query | string[] | No | If present, the endpoint will return... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"results":[{}],"next_cursor":"string"}

---
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GET

/v1/convai/knowledge-base/search

ElevenLabs API

Search Knowledge Base Content

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
→ 202 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/search?query=example-query&page_size=30&types=example&cursor=example-cursor' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
query	query	string	Yes	The search query text
page_size	query	integer	No	How many documents to return at maximum. Can not exceed 100, defaults to 30.
types	query	string[]	No	If present, the endpoint will return only documents of the given types.
cursor	query	string	No	Used for fetching next page. Cursor is returned in the response.

Response 200 OK

{
  "results": [
    {
      "document": {
        "id": "string",
        "name": "string",
        "metadata": {
          "created_at_unix_secs": 0,
          "last_updated_at_unix_secs": 0,
          "size_bytes": 0
        },
        "supported_usages": [
          "auto"
        ],
        "access_info": {
          "access_source": "creator",
          "creator_email": "john.doe@example.com",
          "creator_name": "John Doe",
          "is_creator": true,
          "role": "admin"
        },
        "folder_parent_id": "string",
        "folder_path": [
          {
            "id": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          }
        ],
        "dependent_agents": [
          {
            "referenced_resource_ids": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "id": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "name": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "type": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "created_at_unix_secs": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "access_level": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          }
        ],
        "type": "string",
        "url": "string",
        "auto_sync_info": {
          "minimum_frequency_days": 7,
          "auto_remove": false,
          "consec_failures": 0,
          "next_refresh_by": 0
        }
      },
      "search_snippet": [
        {
          "value": "string",
          "is_hit": true
        }
      ],
      "score": 0
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "string"
}