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OpenAI Compatible FastAPI Endpoint API Reference

Full API reference for RAGWire's OpenAI-compatible FastAPI endpoints covering health checks, model listing, chat completions, and document ingestion.

May 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM1 min readFollowFollow (Hindi)

Topics You Will Master

Health check and model listing endpoints
Chat completions with OpenAI-compatible Server-Sent Events streaming
Document ingestion via multipart form upload
Full request and response schemas for every endpoint
Best For

Developers integrating RAGWire into OpenAI-compatible chat UIs, agent frameworks, or custom API clients.

Expected Outcome

Complete working knowledge of RAGWire's REST API to build integrations without reading the source code.

RAGWire exposes a set of REST endpoints that mirror the OpenAI API schema, making it a drop-in compatible server for any Chat UI or agent framework that targets the OpenAI API. The following sections document each available endpoint with sample requests and responses.


Health & Models

GET /health

Check if the server is running.

Response

JSON
{
  "status": "ok"
}

GET /v1/models

List available models.

Response

JSON
{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ragwire-agent",
      "object": "model",
      "created": 1776001225,
      "owned_by": "ragwire"
    }
  ]
}

GET /v1/models/{model_id}

Get a specific model by ID.

Response

JSON
{
  "id": "ragwire-agent",
  "object": "model",
  "created": 1776001225,
  "owned_by": "ragwire"
}

Chat Completions

POST /v1/chat/completions

Send a chat message and receive a streamed response in OpenAI SSE format.

Request

JSON
{
  "model": "ragwire-agent",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "user", "content": "what is apple revenue?" }
  ]
}

Streamed Response — Server-Sent Events

TEXT
data: {"id": "chatcmpl-abc123", "object": "chat.completion.chunk", "created": 1776001225, "model": "ragwire-agent", "choices": [{"index": 0, "delta": {"role": "assistant", "content": ""}, "finish_reason": null}]}

data: {"id": "chatcmpl-abc123", "object": "chat.completion.chunk", "created": 1776001225, "model": "ragwire-agent", "choices": [{"index": 0, "delta": {"content": "Apple's total net sales"}, "finish_reason": null}]}

data: {"id": "chatcmpl-abc123", "object": "chat.completion.chunk", "created": 1776001225, "model": "ragwire-agent", "choices": [{"index": 0, "delta": {}, "finish_reason": "stop"}]}

data: [DONE]

Document Ingestion

POST /upload

Upload one or more documents to ingest into the knowledge base.

Request — multipart/form-data

TEXT
files: report.pdf
files: earnings.pdf

Response

JSON
{
  "message": "Ingested 42 chunks from 2 file(s) (0 skipped).",
  "stats": {
    "total": 2,
    "processed": 2,
    "skipped": 0,
    "failed": 0,
    "chunks_created": 42,
    "errors": []
  }
}

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