Index OneDrive | Captain Docs

import requests
BASE_URL = "https://api.runcaptain.com"
API_KEY = "your_api_key"
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(
    f"{BASE_URL}/v2/collections/my_documents/index/onedrive",
    headers=headers,
    json={
        "tenant_id": "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444",
        "client_id": "your_entra_application_client_id",
        "client_secret": "your_entra_client_secret",
        "user_email": "analyst@yourco.com",
        "processing_type": "advanced"
    },
    timeout=60.0
)
if response.status_code in [200, 201]:
    data = response.json()
    print(f"Job started! ID: {data['job_id']}")
else:
    print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")

Index a user’s entire OneDrive for Business into a collection (headless).

Uses Microsoft Graph app-only auth (Entra ID App Registration with the Files.Read.All application permission) — no per-user OAuth. Scope to a folder or single file with the /directory or /file variants.

Headers:

Authorization: Bearer {api_key}
X-Organization-ID: Organization UUID
Idempotency-Key: UUID for request deduplication (optional)

Returns: { job_id, status: “pending” }

Index a user's entire OneDrive for Business into a collection (headless). Uses Microsoft Graph app-only auth (Entra ID App Registration with the Files.Read.All application permission) — no per-user OAuth. Scope to a folder or single file with the /directory or /file variants. Headers: - Authorization: Bearer {api_key} - X-Organization-ID: Organization UUID - Idempotency-Key: UUID for request deduplication (optional) Returns: { job_id, status: "pending" }

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

tenant_idstringRequired

Microsoft Entra ID tenant (directory) ID of the customer’s Microsoft 365 environment. A GUID, or the tenant domain (e.g. ‘contoso.onmicrosoft.com’).

client_idstringRequired

Application (client) ID of the Entra ID App Registration the customer’s admin created for Captain.

client_secretstringRequired

Client secret generated for that App Registration. Used once per job to mint app-only Microsoft Graph tokens; never stored.

processing_typeenumRequired

Document processing type. ‘advanced’ uses agentic OCR with AI-enhanced extraction for complex layouts, tables, figures, charts, and documents containing images. ‘basic’ provides reliable OCR optimized for general document indexing and high-volume processing.

user_emailstringRequired

Email (user principal name) of the OneDrive for Business user whose drive to index. Requires the Files.Read.All application permission.

skip_existingbooleanOptionalDefaults to true

When true, files already indexed in the collection are skipped and will not be re-indexed with incoming changes. When false, all incoming files are indexed regardless of whether they already exist.

overwrite_existingbooleanOptionalDefaults to false

When true, files that already exist in the collection will be deleted and re-indexed with the latest changes. Requires skip_existing=false. Setting both to true returns a 400 error.

transcription_languagestring or nullOptional

AWS Transcribe language code for the spoken audio (e.g. ‘es-US’, ‘pt-BR’). Omit to auto-detect per file. Video and audio files only. Supported codes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/supported-languages.html

custom_metadatamap from strings to strings or integers or doubles or booleans or lists of strings or nullOptional

Custom metadata to attach to all indexed chunks. Keys must be strings. Values: str, int, float, bool, or List[str].

parsing_scriptstring or nullOptional

Relative path to a JS parsing script for JSON files (e.g. ‘research/paper-parser’).

max_filesinteger or nullOptional

Response

Successful Response

job_idstring

statusstringDefaults to pending

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

1	{
2	"job_id": "job_onedrive_abc123",
3	"status": "pending"
4	}