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Create bucket

Endpoint

posthttps://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1/storage/buckets

Description

Create a new storage bucket.

Required scopes

buckets.write

Authentication

Initialize the Appwrite client with setProject() and a server API key (setKey()). For direct REST calls, send X-Appwrite-Project and X-Appwrite-Key.

Parameters

string
Required

Unique Id. Choose a custom ID or generate a random ID with ID.unique(). Valid chars are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, period, hyphen, and underscore. Can't start with a special char. Max length is 36 chars.

string
Required

Bucket name

array

An array of permission strings. By default, no user is granted with any permissions. Learn more about permissions.

boolean

Enables configuring permissions for individual file. A user needs one of file or bucket level permissions to access a file. Learn more about permissions.

boolean

Is bucket enabled?

integer

Maximum file size allowed in bytes. Maximum allowed value is 30MB. For self-hosted setups you can change the max limit by changing the _APP_STORAGE_LIMIT environment variable. Learn more about storage environment variables

array

Allowed file extensions. Maximum of 100 extensions are allowed, each 64 characters long.

string

Compression algorithm choosen for compression. Can be one of none, gzip, or zstd, For file size above 20MB compression is skipped even if it's enabled

boolean

Is encryption enabled? For file size above 20MB encryption is skipped even if it's enabled

boolean

Is virus scanning enabled? For file size above 20MB AntiVirus scanning is skipped even if it's enabled

Status
Content type
201
application/json

Bucket

Name
Type
Description
string

Bucket ID.

string

Bucket creation time in ISO 8601 format.

string

Bucket update date in ISO 8601 format.

arrayof string

Bucket permissions. Learn more about permissions.

boolean

Whether file-level security is enabled. Learn more about permissions.

string

Bucket name.

boolean

Bucket enabled.

integer

Maximum file size supported.

arrayof string

Allowed file extensions.

string

Compression algorithm choosen for compression. Will be one of none, gzip, or zstd.

boolean

Bucket is encrypted.

boolean

Virus scanning is enabled.

Swift
import Appwrite


let client = Client()
    .setEndpoint("https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1") // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject("5df5acd0d48c2") // Your project ID
    .setKey("919c2d18fb5d4...a2ae413da83346ad2") // Your secret API key


let storage = Storage(client)


let bucket = try await storage.createBucket(
    bucketId: "[BUCKET_ID]",
    name: "[NAME]"
)