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John O'Keefe 4a6fb033cb docs(media-items): Work Order 3 batch 3b — management endpoints (8)
New frontmatter'd docs:
- download (ServeFile — raw bytes, family-lens enforced; corrects the old
  download doc's claim that no download route is registered: ServeFile IS
  routed, DownloadBook is the dead code)
- set_audio_speed (speed range 0.25-4.0, NaN/Inf rejected)
- rescan (abridged example over the full 70+-column row; write-after-success
  guarantee noted)
- purge-archived (destructive, admin), unarchive (204), merge (SHA-256
  precondition, per-user collisions keep active copy)
- facets (two modes: facet+values, field autocomplete counts)
- filter_count (family lens)

Registry: RawMessage pins for map/abridged responses; Schema{} for non-JSON
body routes (download = raw bytes; unarchive = 204). Audit now:
missing docs down to ~55 (from 112), 0 orphans.
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method, path, auth, area
method path auth area
POST /api/media-items/:id/rescan jwt+admin media-items

Rescan Media Item

Re-extracts metadata for one media item from its file and returns the updated row (200, full media_items record — 70+ columns; the most relevant are shown below).

Write-after-success guarantee: a failed/empty extraction never clears scan-derived columns.

Example response (abridged)

{
  "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "library_id": "990e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "title": "1984",
  "author": "George Orwell",
  "file_path": "/books/1984.epub",
  "mime_type": "application/epub+zip",
  "scan_status": "completed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-24T14:57:01Z"
}

The example is abridged for readability — the response carries the full media_items row.

Errors

Status Body When
400 {"error": "invalid media item id"} malformed id
403 {"error": "admin access required"} not an admin
404 {"error": "media item not found"} no such item
500 {"error": "..."} extraction/DB failure