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# Batch create AutomationTemplate

POST https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/automation-template:batch-create
Content-Type: application/json

Batch create AutomationTemplate synchronously in one transaction. Maximum 25 items per request.

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/docs/api/benchling-api/automation-template/batchcreate

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Headers

- `EARLY-ACCESS` (string, optional) — Set to true to access beta operations via /api/v3.

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an object.

- `items` (list of CreateAutomationTemplateInput, required)

## Response

### 201

Created

- `items` (list of AutomationTemplate, required)

## Errors

### 400 Automation Template Batch Create Request Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 403 Automation Template Batch Create Request Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 404 Automation Template Batch Create Request Not Found Error

Not Found

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 409 Automation Template Batch Create Request Conflict Error

Conflict

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 429 Automation Template Batch Create Request Too Many Requests Error

Too Many Requests

- `detail` (TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)
- `violated-policies` (list of enum, optional) — The budget policies that rejected the request, in canonical order: `user`, `integration`, then `tenant`.
  - Allowed values: `user`, `integration`, `tenant`

### 500 Automation Template Batch Create Request Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `detail` (InternalServerErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `errorId` (string, optional)

## Types

### CreateAutomationTemplateInput

- `name` (string, required)
- `templateCollectionId` (string, required)
- `description` (string, optional, nullable) — Optional human-readable description. Must be at most 1500 characters

### AutomationTemplate

A reusable pipeline configuration that can be instantiated to create new Analysis objects. AutomationTemplates define a data processing workflow with AutomationSteps (see `steps`) that can be parameterized through config variables (see `AutomationTemplateVariable`) and data frame variables (see `AutomationTemplateDataFrameVariable`). When users apply a template to an Analysis, they provide values for these variables, generating a pipeline populated with actual data. Templates are organized within TemplateCollections and must be published before they can be applied.

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `archiveReason` (string, optional, nullable)
- `archived` (boolean, optional)
- `configVariables` (string, optional)
- `createdAt` (string, optional)
- `createdFromPipeline` (AnalysisRef, optional, nullable)
- `creator` (PrincipalRef, optional)
- `dataFrameVariables` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)
- `modifiedAt` (string, optional)
- `name` (string, optional)
- `steps` (string, optional)
- `templateCollection` (TemplateCollectionRef, optional)
- `webUrl` (string, optional, nullable)

### GeneralErrorDetail

### TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail

### InternalServerErrorBodyDetail

### AnalysisRef

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)

### PrincipalRef

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)

### TemplateCollectionRef

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "name",
      "templateCollectionId": "templateCollectionId"
    }
  ]
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "__typename": "__typename",
      "archiveReason": "archiveReason",
      "archived": true,
      "configVariables": "configVariables",
      "createdAt": "createdAt",
      "dataFrameVariables": "dataFrameVariables",
      "id": "id",
      "modifiedAt": "modifiedAt",
      "name": "name",
      "steps": "steps",
      "webUrl": "webUrl"
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/automation-template:batch-create"

payload = { "items": [
        {
            "name": "name",
            "templateCollectionId": "templateCollectionId"
        }
    ] }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/automation-template:batch-create';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"items":[{"name":"name","templateCollectionId":"templateCollectionId"}]}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```