---
title: "Submit a manual for ingestion (public, no API key required)"
method: POST
path: "/v1/public/ingest"
tags: ["ingest"]
---

# Submit a manual for ingestion (public, no API key required)

`POST /v1/public/ingest`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://mcp.techmanual.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://mcp.techmanual.ai/v1/public/ingest`
- Auth: none declared

Upload a PDF manual via the public web form. No API key required. Requires a valid Cloudflare Turnstile token in the ``cf_turnstile_token`` field. Rate limited to 5 submissions per IP per hour. All metadata fields are optional — the enrichment bot will infer what it can. The document enters the enrichment queue and becomes searchable once approved.

## Response `202`

Successful Response

- IngestOut: Response schema for the ingestion endpoint.
  - `document_id` integer, required
  - `status` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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