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  tags:
    - Ingestion Rules
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  description: >-
    Ingest existing files now with the rules that match them, as an upload of…
    Reference for the POST /v1/ingestion-rules/ingest endpoint in the Roboto
    REST API.
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  label: Ingest files
  badge: POST
title: Ingest files
type: openapi-operation
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Ingest existing files now with the rules that match them, as an upload of each would have.

Also how a failed ingestion is run again. Needs edit access to each file; a file the caller may not edit is
reported ``not_found``.

### Access control
 - requires_org
 - Restricted tokens need the API scope `api.everything_else`

`POST /v1/ingestion-rules/ingest`