# Create Collection

**POST** `/v0/documentCollections/createCollection`

Create a new collection. The API key used will be added to the collection for future Requests

Base URL: `https://api.credal.ai/api`

Tags: `documentCollections`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `BearerAuthScheme` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Request body

Optional. Media type: `application/json`

### Example request body

```json
{
  "collaborators": [
    {
      "email": "string",
      "role": "editor"
    }
  ],
  "description": "string",
  "name": "string"
}
```

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | Response with status 200 | `application/json` |

### Example response: 200 — Response with status 200

```json
{
  "collectionId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}
```

## Related pages

- [Add Collection To Copilot](./copilots_addcollectiontocopilot.md)
- [Add Documents To Collection](./documentcollections_adddocumentstocollection.md)
- [API Reference](../../api.md)
- [copilots](./tags/copilots.md)
- [Create Conversation](./copilots_createconversation.md)
- [Create Copilot](./copilots_createcopilot.md)
- [Create Mongo Collection Sync](./documentcollections_createmongocollectionsync.md)
- [Delete Collection](./documentcollections_deletecollection.md)
- [Delete Copilot](./copilots_deletecopilot.md)
- [documentCatalog](./tags/documentcatalog.md)

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