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# Create a dataset

POST https://platform.labric.co/api/v1/datasets
Content-Type: application/json

Creates a dataset. Rejects a query that fails to run against the
organization's data. If a dataset with the same name, query, and default
parameters exists, returns it instead.

Requires an API key with the `write` scope.

Reference: https://docs.labric.co/api-reference/labric-api/datasets/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 CreateDatasetSchema.

- `name` (string, required) — Name, unique among the organization's datasets.
- `query` (string, required) — SQL query: a single read-only SELECT statement. Reference parameters as :name.
- `description` (string, optional, nullable) — Description shown with the dataset.
- `default_parameters` (map from string to any, optional, nullable) — Default values for the query's parameters, keyed by name. Give one for every parameter the query uses.

## Response

### 200

OK

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `publish_status` (enum, required) — Whether an authored object is finished enough for others to rely on. In review marks a draft its author considers ready for an admin to publish.
  - Allowed values: `draft`, `in_review`, `published`
- `date_updated` (datetime, required)
- `description` (string, optional, nullable)
- `query` (string, optional, nullable)
- `default_parameters` (map from string to any, optional, nullable)
- `user` (UserSchema, optional, nullable)
- `access_level` (enum, optional, nullable) — What a grant lets its grantee do. Manage includes edit and adds sharing, archiving and deleting.
  - Allowed values: `edit`, `manage`

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `detail` (string, required)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `detail` (string, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `detail` (string, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

Not Found

- `detail` (string, required)

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Unprocessable Content

- `detail` (list of map from string to any, required)

### 500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `detail` (string, required)

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

Service Unavailable

- `detail` (string, required)

## Types

### UserSchema

- `clerk_id` (string, required)
- `email` (string, required)
- `first_name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `last_name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `image_url` (string, optional, nullable)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "name": "string",
  "query": "string"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "publish_status": "draft",
  "date_updated": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "description": "string",
  "query": "string",
  "default_parameters": {},
  "user": {
    "clerk_id": "string",
    "email": "string",
    "first_name": "string",
    "last_name": "string",
    "image_url": "string"
  },
  "access_level": "edit"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://platform.labric.co/api/v1/datasets"

payload = {
    "name": "string",
    "query": "string"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <api_key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```