Update Document Text

Update a document by replacing its text content and queueing re-ingestion.

POST /documents/{document_id}/update_text

JavaScript

JavaScript

import Morphik from 'morphik';

const client = new Morphik({
  apiKey: process.env['MORPHIK_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const document = await client.documents.updateText('document_id', { content: 'content' });

console.log(document.app_id);

200

{
  "content_type": "<string>",
  "external_id": "<string>",
  "filename": "<string>",
  "metadata": {},
  "metadata_types": {},
  "storage_info": {},
  "system_metadata": {},
  "additional_metadata": {},
  "chunk_ids": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "summary_storage_key": "<string>",
  "summary_version": 123,
  "summary_bucket": "<string>",
  "summary_updated_at": "<string>",
  "folder_name": "<string>",
  "end_user_id": "<string>",
  "app_id": "<string>",
  "folder_path": "<string>",
  "folder_id": "<string>"
}

Headers

authorization · string | null

Path Parameters

document_id · string · required

Body

application/json

Request model for ingesting text content

content · string · required

Raw text content to store as a document.

filename · string | null

Optional filename hint used when inferring MIME type or displaying the document.

metadata · Metadata · object

User-defined metadata stored with the document (JSON-serializable).

metadata_types · Metadata Types · object | null

Optional per-field type hints: 'string', 'number', 'decimal', 'datetime', 'date', 'boolean', 'array', 'object'. Enables typed comparisons with $eq, $gt, etc. Types are inferred if omitted.

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use_colpali · boolean | null

When provided, uses Morphik's finetuned ColPali style embeddings (recommended to be True for high quality retrieval).

folder_name · string | null

Optional folder scope for the operation

end_user_id · string | null

Optional end-user scope for the operation

Response

200

application/json

Successful Response

Represents a document stored in the database documents collection

content_type · string · required

external_id · string

filename · string | null

metadata · Metadata · object

metadata_types · Metadata Types · object

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storage_info · Storage Info · object

system_metadata · System Metadata · object

additional_metadata · Additional Metadata · object

chunk_ids · string[]

summary_storage_key · string | null

summary_version · integer | null

summary_bucket · string | null

summary_updated_at · string | null

folder_name · string | null

end_user_id · string | null

app_id · string | null

folder_path · string | null

folder_id · string | null