---
title: "Add images to a collection"
method: POST
path: "/v1/collections/{id}/images"
tags: ["Collections"]
---

# Add images to a collection

`POST /v1/collections/{id}/images`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.memestack.ai`
- URL: `https://api.memestack.ai/v1/collections/{id}/images`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Owner or admin only. 1–50 image ids per request; non-approved or already-member ids are silently skipped. Capacity-gated at 500 approved members (COLLECTION_MAX_IMAGES). Notifies affected uploaders when the collection is public.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- object
  - `image_ids` string[], required

## Response `200`

Membership updated.

- object
  - `added` integer
  - `skipped` integer
  - `member_count` integer

## Other responses

- `400`: image_ids missing, empty, not UUIDs, or over 50 entries.
- `403`: Not the owner or admin (collection is public).
- `404`: Collection not found, or private and caller is not owner/admin.

---

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