EXexcalidraw
collections

Create collection

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Create a new collection in the workspace.

This endpoint creates a collection with the specified name. Collections are used to organize scenes and manage permissions.

**Use cases:**
- Organizing scenes by project, team, or topic
- Automating collection creation for onboarding flows
- Integrating with external project management tools
post/api/v1/collections

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.excalidraw.com
  • URL
    https://api.excalidraw.com/api/v1/collections
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Request body

namestring required

Response

This response returns the newly created collection.

idstring required
isDefaultboolean
workspacestring required
creatorunknown required
updaterunknown
teamsstring[] required
createdstring date-time required
sortOrderunknown
namestring required
updatedstring date-time required
isDeletedboolean
deletedAtnumber

Changes

  • 9fa65a47c84cRevision changes
    • breaking

      the response property became nullable for the status

    • breaking

      the response property became nullable for the status

    • breaking

      the response property became nullable for the status

    • info

      response property creator list-of-types was narrowed by removing types null from media type application/json of response 200

    • info

      response property sortOrder list-of-types was narrowed by removing types null from media type application/json of response 200

    • info

      response property updater list-of-types was narrowed by removing types null from media type application/json of response 200

    • info

      the response's property pattern was changed from ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ to ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z))$ for the status

    • info

      the / response's property pattern was changed from ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ to ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z))$ for the status