> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://dify-6c0370d8-fix-template-upload-size-guidance.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Download Documents as ZIP > Downloads one or more documents as a single ZIP archive. Only documents that were uploaded as files can be included. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /en/api-reference/openapi_service.json post /datasets/{dataset_id}/documents/download-zip 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 paths: /datasets/{dataset_id}/documents/download-zip: post: tags: - Documents summary: Download Documents as ZIP description: >- Downloads one or more documents as a single ZIP archive. Only documents that were uploaded as files can be included. operationId: downloadDocumentsZip parameters: - description: >- Knowledge base ID. From [List Knowledge Bases](/en/api-reference/knowledge-bases/list-knowledge-bases). in: path name: dataset_id required: true schema: format: uuid type: string requestBody: content: application/json: schema: properties: document_ids: description: >- Document IDs to include in the archive. Get them from [List Documents](/en/api-reference/documents/list-documents). items: format: uuid type: string maxItems: 100 minItems: 1 type: array required: - document_ids type: object required: true responses: '200': content: application/zip: schema: description: ZIP archive binary stream. format: binary type: string description: ZIP archive containing the requested documents. '403': content: application/json: examples: forbidden_1: summary: forbidden (api access) value: code: forbidden message: Dataset api access is not enabled. status: 403 forbidden_2: summary: forbidden (rate limit) value: code: forbidden message: >- Sorry, you have reached the knowledge base request rate limit of your subscription. status: 403 forbidden_3: summary: forbidden (dataset permission) value: code: forbidden message: You do not have permission to access this dataset. status: 403 forbidden_4: summary: forbidden (document permission) value: code: forbidden message: No permission. status: 403 description: >- - `forbidden` : Knowledge base API access is not enabled. - `forbidden` : Sorry, you have reached the knowledge base request rate limit of your subscription. - `forbidden` : You do not have permission to access this knowledge base. - `forbidden` : You do not have permission for one of the requested documents. '404': content: application/json: examples: not_found_1: summary: not_found value: code: not_found message: Document not found. status: 404 not_found_2: summary: not_found value: code: not_found message: Dataset not found. status: 404 not_found_3: summary: not_found_3 value: code: not_found message: Only uploaded-file documents can be downloaded as ZIP. status: 404 description: >- - `not_found` : Document not found. - `not_found` : Knowledge base not found. Also returned as "Only uploaded-file documents can be downloaded as ZIP." when a requested document has no uploaded file. components: 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 ````