Bulk Create Devices

Request

To create multiple new Devices please make a POST request to the following URL:

HTTP Method	URL
POST	`https://industrial.api.ubidots.com/api/v2.0/devices/_/bulk/create/`

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Use	Description
token	String	Authentication	Authentication Token can optionally be sent as a query parameter.

Body Parameters

The body is an Array containing Device JSON objects. Each Device object can contain the following body parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required?	Default Value	Description
label	String	Yes	N/A (required)	API label of Device
name	String	No	Same as `label`	Name of Device
description	String	No	`""`	Description of Device
tags	String Array	No	`[ ]`	Device tags
properties	Object	No	`{ }`	Device properties. Allowed attributes: `_icon`, `_color`, `_location_type`, `_location_variable` (label of Variable), `_location_fixed`, `_config`
organization	String	No	`null`	Organization of Device

Header

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Please note that the X-Bulk-Operation header attribute is necessary Learn more.

Parameter	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String	Authentication Token of account
X-Bulk-Operation	Boolean	Need to be set to `True` for the bulk operation to work
Content-Type	String (application/json)	Content type of body

curl -X POST 'https://industrial.api.ubidots.com/api/v2.0/devices/_/bulk/create/' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H 'X-Auth-Token: oaXBo6ODhIjPsusNRPUGIK4d72bc73' \
 -H 'X-Bulk-Operation: True' \
 -d '[
  	 {
            "label": "device_1",
            "properties": {
              "_location_type":"manual",
              "_location_fixed": { 
                  "lat": 6.2486, 
                  "lng": 75.5742 
              	} 
          	}
 		},
        {
            "label": "device_2",
            "tags": ["Colombia", "Medellin", "IoTIsGreat"]
        },
        {
            "label": "device_3",
            "properties": {},
            "description":"This is the description for device_3"
        }
     ]'

{
    "task": {
        "id": "5f208f564763e74744b2ba87"
    }
}

{
    "code": 400001,
    "message": "Validation Error.",
    "detail": {
        ....
    }
}

{
    "code": 401001,
    "message": "Authentication credentials were not provided.",
    "detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided."
}

{
    "detail": "Header `X-BULK-OPERATION` should be provided for bulk operation."
}

Response

Returns a Task Id of the asynchronous process.