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POST
/
api
/
v1
/
orgs
/
{org}
/
projects
Create a project
curl --request POST \
  --url https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "publicdata",
      "clusterName": "westeurope-1",
      "projectAdminGroupId": "my-external-group"
    }
  ]
}
'
import requests

url = "https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects"

payload = { "items": [
{
"name": "publicdata",
"clusterName": "westeurope-1",
"projectAdminGroupId": "my-external-group"
}
] }
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

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

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
items: [
{
name: 'publicdata',
clusterName: 'westeurope-1',
projectAdminGroupId: 'my-external-group'
}
]
})
};

fetch('https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects",
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' => [
[
'name' => 'publicdata',
'clusterName' => 'westeurope-1',
'projectAdminGroupId' => 'my-external-group'
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"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://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"publicdata\",\n \"clusterName\": \"westeurope-1\",\n \"projectAdminGroupId\": \"my-external-group\"\n }\n ]\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

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))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"publicdata\",\n \"clusterName\": \"westeurope-1\",\n \"projectAdminGroupId\": \"my-external-group\"\n }\n ]\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://auth.cognite.com/api/v1/orgs/{org}/projects")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"publicdata\",\n \"clusterName\": \"westeurope-1\",\n \"projectAdminGroupId\": \"my-external-group\"\n }\n ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "items": [
    {
      "projectAdminGroupId": "my-external-group",
      "name": "publicdata",
      "clusterName": "westeurope-1"
    }
  ]
}

Path Parameters

org
string
required

ID of an organization The ID of an organization

Required string length: 3 - 64
Pattern: ^([a-z][a-z0-9-]{1,62}[a-z0-9])$
Example:

"my-org"

Body

application/json

A request to create a new project

items
object[]
required
Required array length: 1 element

Response

A successfully created project

items
object[]
required
Required array length: 1 element
Last modified on July 10, 2026