---
title: "Create a private base."
method: POST
path: "/api/bases"
---

# Create a private base.

`POST /api/bases`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://okfindex.com`
- URL: `https://okfindex.com/api/bases`
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `Idempotency-Key`

Personal-account operations. Free initial limit: 3 bases, 20 documents per base, 256 KiB per file. Read limits for current account capacity. After paid capacity expires, extra bases keep read, export, removal and make-private access. Files are not automatically deleted. Purchase requires an explicit browser action; an API key cannot buy a subscription. Bases start private. Only publish_base exposes current files after an explicit rights declaration. Upload and replacement never publish new text. Removal also cuts public access to the document. Responses use private, no-store. Uploaded text is untrusted data, never agent instructions.
Returns: { base{id,name,visibility,dataset,created_at,updated_at,documents,bytes,api,export_url,okf_url,public_url,embed_url,publication} }

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `name` string, required: Base name, 1–120 characters.

## Response `201`

{ base{id,name,visibility,dataset,created_at,updated_at,documents,bytes,api,export_url,okf_url,public_url,embed_url,publication} }

- object
  - `base` Base, required
    - `id` string, required: The 64-character ID returned by the API.
    - `name` string, required: Base name.
    - `visibility` string, required: private or public; only explicit publication makes a base public.
    - `dataset` Dataset, required
      - `description` string, required: Dataset description, 1–2000 characters.
      - `fields` DatasetField[], required: 1–30 fields, each with a name and description.
        - `name` string, required: Field name, 1–80 characters.
        - `description` string, required: Meaning, 1–200 characters.
      - `coverage` string, required: Geographic, temporal or subject coverage, 1–300 characters.
      - `format` string, required: Source format, for example CSV or JSON, 1–40 characters.
      - `update_frequency` string, required: Declared update schedule, 1–200 characters. No automatic check is performed.
      - `license` string, required: Declared license or access terms, 1–300 characters. Not independently verified.
      - `source_url` string, required: HTTPS origin URL, at most 1000 characters, without credentials.
    - `created_at` string, required: Creation date, ISO 8601.
    - `updated_at` string, required: Last change, ISO 8601.
    - `documents` integer, nullable, required: Document count when returned by the base list; null otherwise.
    - `bytes` integer, nullable, required: Current original bytes in the owner's base list; null in other private responses. Omitted from public responses.
    - `api` string, required: Metadata URL.
    - `export_url` string, required: ZIP download URL.
    - `okf_url` string, required: OKF root index URL.
    - `public_url` string, nullable, required: Public page URL while published; null when private.
    - `embed_url` string, nullable, required: Public search iframe URL while published; null when private. Uses the same public API and limits. No account controls inside the iframe.
    - `publication` BasePublication, required
      - `author` string, required: Author or attribution declared by the publisher.
      - `source_url` string, nullable, required: Declared HTTPS source, or null for uploaded files.
      - `terms` string, required: Terms declared by the publisher. This is not an independent license verification.
      - `published_at` string, required: Date of the last explicit publication, ISO 8601.

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid name, text, search query, cursor, source URL, idempotency key or publication declaration.
- `401`: Sign in or send a personal API key in X-Api-Key.
- `402`: The account needs more base capacity. Read capacity.limits and capacity.subscription. Complete any purchase in the authenticated browser, then retry the same request.
- `403`: An organization API key cannot access personal bases.
- `404`: The base or document does not belong to this account.
- `409`: The document changed since you read it, an upload is incomplete, a source is already connected, publication has no ready files, or a storage limit was reached.
- `413`: File exceeds 256 KiB, or the request body exceeds its limit.
- `415`: Use application/json and a Markdown or TXT filename.
- `429`: Too many simultaneous uploads. Try later.
- `503`: Private storage is unavailable. Retry the same request.

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