Create Source Folder

This example request illustrates how to create a source folder.

JSON

Request

POST /platform/sources/collections
Accept: application/x-fs-v1+json
Content-Type: application/x-fs-v1+json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE{
  "collections" : [ {
    "id" : "src-MMMM-MMM",
    "title" : "Collection Name",
    "attribution" : {
      "contributor" : {
        "resource" : "https://familysearch.org/platform/users/agents/123"
      },
      "modified" : 1543677067759,
      "changeMessage" : "This is the change message"
    }
  } ]
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/x-fs-v1+json
X-entity-id: src-MMMM-MMM
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Location: https://api.familysearch.org/platform/sources/collections/src-MMMM-MMM
Transfer-encoding: chunked

XML

Request

POST /platform/sources/collections
Accept: application/x-fs-v1+xml
Content-Type: application/x-fs-v1+xml
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<fs:familysearch xmlns:fs="http://familysearch.org/v1/" xmlns="http://gedcomx.org/v1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <collection id="src-MMMM-MMM">
        <title>Collection Name</title>
        <attribution>
            <contributor resource="https://familysearch.org/platform/users/agents/123"/>
            <modified>2018-12-01T08:11:07.759-07:00</modified>
            <changeMessage>This is the change message</changeMessage>
        </attribution>
    </collection>
</fs:familysearch>

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/x-fs-v1+xml
X-entity-id: src-MMMM-MMM
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Location: https://api.familysearch.org/platform/sources/collections/src-MMMM-MMM
Transfer-encoding: chunked