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# Create Folder

POST https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/folder
Content-Type: application/json

Create Folder.

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/docs/api/benchling-api/folder/create

## Authentication

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

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CreateFolderInput.

- `name` (string, required)
- `parentId` (string, required)
- `description` (string, optional)

## Response

### 201

Created

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `archiveReason` (string, optional, nullable)
- `archived` (boolean, optional)
- `children` (string, optional) — The folders directly nested under this folder.
- `createdAt` (string, optional)
- `description` (string, optional, nullable)
- `id` (string, optional)
- `modifiedAt` (string, optional, nullable)
- `name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `parent` (FolderRef, optional, nullable) — The parent folder, if it exists. Root folders (one per Project) have no parent.
- `project` (ProjectRef, optional, nullable) — ID of the containing project

## Errors

### 400 Folder 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 Folder 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 Folder 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 Folder 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 Folder 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 Folder 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

### FolderRef

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

### ProjectRef

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

### GeneralErrorDetail

### TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail

### InternalServerErrorBodyDetail

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "name": "name",
  "parentId": "parentId"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "__typename": "__typename",
  "archiveReason": "archiveReason",
  "archived": true,
  "children": "children",
  "createdAt": "createdAt",
  "description": "description",
  "id": "id",
  "modifiedAt": "modifiedAt",
  "name": "name",
  "parent": {
    "__typename": "__typename",
    "id": "id"
  },
  "project": {
    "__typename": "__typename",
    "id": "id"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/folder"

payload = {
    "name": "name",
    "parentId": "parentId"
}
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/folder';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"name":"name","parentId":"parentId"}'
};

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