# PDFKnowledgeSource APIStatusError
**URL:** https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058
**Category:** CrewAI Community Support
**Created:** [March 31, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058 "2025-03-31T13:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@maxnaro](https://community.crewai.com/u/maxnaro)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058/1 "2025-03-31T13:37:37Z")
When initializing a PDFKnowledgeSource component with CrewAI, I’m encountering a critical error that prevents document ingestion: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments: ‘response’ and ‘body’. The error occurs specifically during the document “upserting” process, where PDFKnowledgeSource tries to load PDF content into Mem0 storage. The logs show [ERROR]: Failed to upsert documents: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments followed by [WARNING]: Failed to init knowledge.
If anyone knows how to deal with the error, I would greatly appreciate that, thank you.
(base) maxnaro@Maxims-MacBook-Pro crewai-customerzero % cd “/Users/maxnaro/Documents/itnb ag/cursor\_agents/NEW BEGINNING (07.03.2025)/my-concierge-crewai/crewai-customerzero” && cd src/crewai-customerzero && python main.py
ERROR:crew:Error during PDFKnowledgeSource inspection: ImportError - cannot import name ‘KnowledgeStorage’ from ‘crewai.knowledge’ (/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/lib/python3.12/site-packages/crewai/knowledge/ **init**.py)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/maxnaro/Documents/itnb ag/cursor\_agents/NEW BEGINNING (07.03.2025)/my-concierge-crewai/crewai-customerzero/src/crewai-customerzero/crew.py”, line 58, in
from crewai.knowledge import KnowledgeStorage
ImportError: cannot import name ‘KnowledgeStorage’ from ‘crewai.knowledge’ (/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/lib/python3.12/site-packages/crewai/knowledge/ **init**.py)
=== CustomerZero Knowledge Assistant ===
Type ‘exit’, ‘quit’, or ‘bye’ to end the conversation.
Type ‘save’ to save the current response to a file.
Full session log will be saved to: /Users/maxnaro/Documents/itnb ag/cursor\_agents/NEW BEGINNING (07.03.2025)/my-concierge-crewai/crewai-customerzero/src/crewai-customerzero/output/full\_session\_20250331\_140152.txt
[2025-03-31 14:01:52][ERROR]: Failed to upsert documents: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments: ‘response’ and ‘body’
[2025-03-31 14:01:52][WARNING]: Failed to init knowledge: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments: ‘response’ and ‘body’
User: exit
Assistant: Goodbye! It was nice talking to you.
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### Author:  [@niyathimariya](https://community.crewai.com/u/niyathimariya)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058/2 "2025-06-06T06:59:58Z")
getting similar error. Any update on this ??
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Wood](https://community.crewai.com/u/Tony_Wood)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058/3 "2025-06-08T05:48:41Z")
Hi Max and welcome to the community Niya
What version of crewai are you running @maxnaro
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### Author:  [@niyathimariya](https://community.crewai.com/u/niyathimariya)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058/4 "2025-06-10T07:00:48Z")
Name: crewai
Version: 0.121.1
Im getting
[ERROR]: Failed to upsert documents: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments: ‘response’ and ‘body’
[WARNING]: Failed to init knowledge: APIStatusError. **init** () missing 2 required keyword-only arguments: ‘response’ and ‘body’
while trying to add knowledge\_sources to crew
> self.crew = Crew(
> agents=[
> …
> ],
> tasks=,
> process=Process.sequential,
> verbose=True,
> manager\_llm=self.llm,
> knowledge\_sources=[pdf\_knowledge],
> embedder=embedder\_config,
> )
> ```
> pdf_knowledge = PDFKnowledgeSource(
> file_paths=["sample.pdf"],
> )
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Wood](https://community.crewai.com/u/Tony_Wood)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/pdfknowledgesource-apistatuserror/5058/5 "2025-06-10T15:33:04Z")
From reading through there are a couple of areas
- worth upgrading to latest version
- check the path to the pdf\_filename
- ensure your environment is working correctly
Whenever I get stuck like this.. I use `crewai create crew test` a new crew and then add in the tool I want to use… It means you can avoid any other code etc.
Hope this helps