Creating a Folder using the API yields a 422 error

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Hello!

I’m trying to create a folder using the method in your documentation for creating an asset. However I keep running into 422 errors, telling me its an invalid argument. Even using your own system to try out api calls using your built in python requests system I couldn’t make it go through. Is there something I am missing in order to get it to pop through?

Thanks for the help

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Can you share the body of the POST request you’re using to create the folder? Without that it’s hard to know what’s going wrong.

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Sure, this is the bit of code I’ve been using to create the folder:

url = f"https://api.frame.io/v2/assets/{frameio_id}/children"
headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
    }
payload = {
    "name": "Internal",
    "type": "folder"
    }
create_folder = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

The frameio_id is the project id, and access token being the dev token.

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I see your problem, you can’t pass the project_id in the path parameter, you need to pass the root_asset_id for the Project which is the root folder of said project.

If you’re using the web app, you can get the root_asset_id for the project by clicking the “Media” tab in the Project’s header, which will update the URL in the browser, changing it from
https://app.frame.io/projects/1dc7b623-e5bb-42e0-bcb1-0f0ba3b2a63e → https://app.frame.io/projects/1dc7b623-e5bb-42e0-bcb1-0f0ba3b2a63e/d164cdb0-50ed-4640-98e1-0f4e57b1b2ff.

The part after the last /: d164cdb0-50ed-4640-98e1-0f4e57b1b2ff would be the root asset id of that particular project.

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Ah I see now, that makes sense. For some reason that never occurred to me. Thanks for the assistance!

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Glad to hear that fixed your issue! Happy coding :slight_smile: