const labels = [
  { externalId: 'PUMP', name: "Pump" },
  { externalId: 'ROTATING_EQUIPMENT', name: 'Rotating equipment', description: 'Asset with rotating parts' }
];
const createdLabels = await client.labels.create(labels);

from cognite.client.data_classes import LabelDefinitionWrite
labels = [LabelDefinitionWrite(external_id="ROTATING_EQUIPMENT", name="Rotating equipment"), LabelDefinitionWrite(external_id="PUMP", name="pump")]
res = client.labels.create(labels)

List<Label> upsertLabelsList =  List.of(Label.newBuilder() 
          .setExternalId("10") 
          .setName("Label name") 
          .setDescription("Description") 
          .build()); 

List<Label>  list = client.labels().upsert(upsertLabelsList);

curl --request POST \
  --url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "items": [
    {
      "externalId": "my.known.id",
      "name": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "dataSetId": 4503599627370496
    }
  ]
}
'

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/labels",
  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>',
                'dataSetId' => 4503599627370496
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  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}/labels"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"items\": [\n    {\n      \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"description\": \"<string>\",\n      \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\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}/labels")

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      \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n    }\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "items": [
    {
      "externalId": "my.known.id",
      "name": "<string>",
      "createdTime": 1730204346000,
      "description": "<string>",
      "dataSetId": 4503599627370496
    }
  ]
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 401,
    "message": "Could not authenticate.",
    "missing": [
      {}
    ],
    "duplicated": [
      {}
    ]
  }
}