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      • GETCheck collection existence
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Check collection existence

GET
/collections/:collection_name/exists
GET
/collections/:collection_name/exists
$curl http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/exists \
>     -H "api-key: <apiKey>"
200Retrieved
1{
2  "time": 1.1,
3  "status": "string",
4  "result": {
5    "exists": true
6  }
7}
Checks whether the specified collection exists.
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api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired
Name of the collection

Response

successful operation
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultobject

State of existence of a collection, true = exists, false = does not exist