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The Locale service allows you to customize your app based on your users' location. Using this service, you can get your users' location, IP address, list of countries and continents names, phone codes, currencies, and more. Country codes returned follow the ISO 3166-1 standard.

The user service supports multiple locales. This feature allows you to fetch countries and continents information in your app language. To switch locales, all you need to do is pass the 'X-Appwrite-Locale' header or set the 'setLocale' method using any of our available SDKs. View here the list of available locales.

Base URL
https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1

Create document

Create a new Document. Before using this route, you should create a new collection resource using either a server integration API or directly from your database console.

  • Request
    • databaseId string
      required

      Database ID.

    • collectionId string
      required

      Collection ID. You can create a new collection using the Database service server integration. Make sure to define attributes before creating documents.

    • documentId string

      Document 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.

    • data object

      Document data as JSON object.

    • permissions array

      An array of permissions strings. By default, only the current user is granted all permissions. Learn more about permissions.

  • Response
  • Rate limits

    This endpoint is not limited when using Server SDKs with API keys. If you are using SSR with setSession, these rate limits will still apply. Learn more about SSR rate limits.

    The limit is applied for each unique limit key.

    Time frame
    Attempts
    Key
    1 minutes120 requestsIP + METHOD + URL + USER ID
Endpoint
POST /databases/{databaseId}/collections/{collectionId}/documents
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const databases = new sdk.Databases(client);

const result = await databases.createDocument(
    '<DATABASE_ID>', // databaseId
    '<COLLECTION_ID>', // collectionId
    '<DOCUMENT_ID>', // documentId
    {}, // data
    ["read("any")"] // permissions (optional)
);

Create documents

Create new Documents. Before using this route, you should create a new collection resource using either a server integration API or directly from your database console.

  • Request
    • databaseId string
      required

      Database ID.

    • collectionId string
      required

      Collection ID. You can create a new collection using the Database service server integration. Make sure to define attributes before creating documents.

    • documents array

      Array of documents data as JSON objects.

  • Response
  • Rate limits

    This endpoint is not limited when using Server SDKs with API keys. If you are using SSR with setSession, these rate limits will still apply. Learn more about SSR rate limits.

    The limit is applied for each unique limit key.

    Time frame
    Attempts
    Key
    1 minutes120 requestsIP + METHOD + URL + USER ID
Endpoint
POST /databases/{databaseId}/collections/{collectionId}/documents
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setKey('<YOUR_API_KEY>'); // Your secret API key

const databases = new sdk.Databases(client);

const result = await databases.createDocuments(
    '<DATABASE_ID>', // databaseId
    '<COLLECTION_ID>', // collectionId
    [] // documents
);

Get user locale

Get the current user location based on IP. Returns an object with user country code, country name, continent name, continent code, ip address and suggested currency. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

(IP Geolocation by DB-IP)

  • Response
Endpoint
GET /locale
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.get();

List continents

List of all continents. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/continents
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listContinents();

List countries

List of all countries. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/countries
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listCountries();

List countries phone codes

List of all countries phone codes. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/countries/phones
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listCountriesPhones();

List currencies

List of all currencies, including currency symbol, name, plural, and decimal digits for all major and minor currencies. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/currencies
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listCurrencies();

List EU countries

List of all countries that are currently members of the EU. You can use the locale header to get the data in a supported language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/countries/eu
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listCountriesEU();

List languages

List of all languages classified by ISO 639-1 including 2-letter code, name in English, and name in the respective language.

Endpoint
GET /locale/languages
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listLanguages();

List locale codes

List of all locale codes in ISO 639-1.

Endpoint
GET /locale/codes
Node.js
const sdk = require('node-appwrite');

const client = new sdk.Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1') // Your API Endpoint
    .setProject('<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>') // Your project ID
    .setSession(''); // The user session to authenticate with

const locale = new sdk.Locale(client);

const result = await locale.listCodes();
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