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# Force-run one embedding refresh sweep

POST https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep

Runs one embedding maintenance sweep for the requested refresh mode.

Reference: https://docs.aventure.vc/api-reference/a-venture-api/content-embedding/refresh-sweep

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — User bearer token: Supabase or Clerk session JWT, Clerk OAuth access token, or Clerk personal API key
- `X-API-Key` header (required) — Admin API key for system-to-system write operations

## Request

### Query parameters

- `contentSourceType` (enum, optional) — Required unified content partition to act on, for example entity, person, or newsArticle.
  - Allowed values: `entity`, `person`, `newsArticle`, `blogPost`, `text`, `classificationTag`, `classificationCode`, `product`, `service`, `agentHelpDoc`
- `kind` (enum, required) — Refresh sweep kind: stale-similarity, stale-embedding, or owner-reconcile
  - Allowed values: `owner-reconcile`, `stale-embedding`, `stale-similarity`
- `limit` (integer, optional, default: 10) — Maximum items to enqueue for this sweep (1-500, clamped)

## Response

### 200

OK

- `enqueued` (integer, required) — Number of source ids accepted into the refresh lane
- `kind` (string, required) — Refresh kind: fresh, stale-similarity, stale-embedding, owner-reconcile

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "enqueued": 1,
  "kind": "string"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep"

querystring = {"kind":"owner-reconcile"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile';
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/content/embedding/refresh/sweep?kind=owner-reconcile")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```