Hi, I want to include the document and customer details in the attribute when uploading the documents so that I can filter the documents, for example by customer id or document type. We are uploading the documents every week, and it will be useful to specify the expiration date so that the files o…

Setting a file expiration on creation would be a handy feature. feature-request The create files endpoint doesn’t officially accept an expiration, but if you pass an extra_body parameter in a similar way as in vector store update , it sometimes will accept the parameter and set an expiration date. B…

Metadata and expiry date when uploading file to OpenAI

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aprendendo.next August 25, 2025, 11:02pm 3

Update: it now works and the new expires_after parameter was added to the docs.

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Metadata and expiry date when uploading file to OpenAI

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