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API Reference

API Reference Collections

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     "payload_io_read": 1,
5     "payload_io_write": 1,
6     "payload_index_io_read": 1,
7     "payload_index_io_write": 1,
8     "vector_io_read": 1,
9     "vector_io_write": 1
10   },
11   "time": 0.002,
12   "status": "ok",
13   "result": {
14     "exists": true
15   }
16 }

Checks whether the specified collection exists.

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Retrieve points

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