Create a collection
Serverless indexes do not support collections.
# pip install "pinecone[grpc]"
from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone
pc = Pinecone(api_key="API_KEY")
pc.create_collection("example-collection", "docs-example")// npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone'
const pc = new Pinecone({
apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY'
});
await pc.createCollection({
name: "example-collection",
source: "docs-example",
});import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
public class CreateCollectionExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
pc.createCollection("example-collection", "docs-example");
}
}PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -s "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2024-04" \
-d '{
"name": "example-collection",
"source": "docs-example"
}'POST /collections
Request body
Section titled “Request body”name(body, string, required) — The name of the collection to be created. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.source(body, string, required) — The name of the index to be used as the source for the collection.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”201— The collection has been successfully created.400401403409— Collection of given name already exists.422500