JavaScript SDK
const datasets = [
{ externalId: 'sensitiveData' },
{ writeProtected: true }
];
const createdDatasets = await client.datasets.create(datasets);from cognite.client.data_classes import DataSetWrite
data_sets = [DataSetWrite(name="1st level"), DataSetWrite(name="2nd level")]
res = client.data_sets.create(data_sets)List<DataSet> upsertDataSetList = List.of(DataSet.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("generated-")
.setDescription("Generated description")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.putMetadata("source", "sdk-data-generator")
.build());
List<DataSet> upsertDataSetsResults =
client.datasets().upsert(upsertDataSetList);curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"metadata": {},
"writeProtected": false
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => 'my.known.id',
'name' => '<string>',
'description' => '<string>',
'metadata' => [
],
'writeProtected' => false
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"writeProtected\": false\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"writeProtected\": false\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"writeProtected": false,
"id": 4503599627370496,
"createdTime": 1730204346000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 1730204346000,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"metadata": {}
}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}Create data sets
Required capabilities:
datasetsAcl:WRITE
You can create a maximum of 10 data sets per request.
POST
/
datasets
JavaScript SDK
const datasets = [
{ externalId: 'sensitiveData' },
{ writeProtected: true }
];
const createdDatasets = await client.datasets.create(datasets);from cognite.client.data_classes import DataSetWrite
data_sets = [DataSetWrite(name="1st level"), DataSetWrite(name="2nd level")]
res = client.data_sets.create(data_sets)List<DataSet> upsertDataSetList = List.of(DataSet.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("generated-")
.setDescription("Generated description")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.putMetadata("source", "sdk-data-generator")
.build());
List<DataSet> upsertDataSetsResults =
client.datasets().upsert(upsertDataSetList);curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"metadata": {},
"writeProtected": false
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => 'my.known.id',
'name' => '<string>',
'description' => '<string>',
'metadata' => [
],
'writeProtected' => false
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"writeProtected\": false\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/datasets")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"writeProtected\": false\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"writeProtected": false,
"id": 4503599627370496,
"createdTime": 1730204346000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 1730204346000,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"metadata": {}
}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}Authorizations
oidc-tokenoauth2-client-credentialsoauth2-open-industrial-dataoauth2-auth-code
Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
Body
application/json
List of the data sets to create.
Required array length:
1 - 10 elementsShow child attributes
Show child attributes
Response
A list of data sets.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
Last modified on July 10, 2026
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