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Check collection existence

GET
/collections/:collection_name/exists
GET
/collections/:collection_name/exists
$curl  -X GET \
>  'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/exists' \
>  --header 'api-key: <api-key-value>'
200Retrieved
1{
2  "usage": {
3    "cpu": 1,
4    "io_read": 1,
5    "io_write": 1
6  },
7  "time": 0.002,
8  "status": "ok",
9  "result": {
10    "exists": true
11  }
12}
Checks whether the specified collection exists.
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Authentication

api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired
Name of the collection

Response

successful operation
usageobject or any
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultobject

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