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Create Live Items

Components in Rich Text

Rich Text field values can contain Webflow component instances as <wf-component> markup — see Components in Rich Text for the markup grammar, how to find component and property IDs, and the write constraints.

Create item(s) in a collection that will be immediately published to the live site.

This endpoint accepts two request shapes, and a request must use one or the other:

  • Single item — send fieldData at the top level. Set cmsLocaleId to create the item in a specific locale.
  • Multiple items — send an items array with at least one entry. Each entry needs its own fieldData, and can set its own cmsLocaleId, isDraft, and isArchived. The API ignores any other property on an entry.
{
  "items": [
    {
      "isArchived": false,
      "isDraft": false,
      "fieldData": {
        "name": "Senior Data Analyst",
        "slug": "senior-data-analyst"
      }
    },
    {
      "isArchived": false,
      "isDraft": false,
      "fieldData": {
        "name": "Product Manager",
        "slug": "product-manager"
      }
    }
  ]
}

A request that carries both fieldData and items returns a 400.

To create items across multiple locales, use Create Items, then Publish Items.

Required scope | CMS:write

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Bearer authentication of the form Bearer <token>, where token is your auth token.

Path parameters

collection_idstringRequiredformat: "objectid"
Unique identifier for a Collection

Query parameters

skipInvalidFilesbooleanOptionalDefaults to true
When true, invalid files are skipped and processing continues. When false, the entire request fails if any file is invalid.

Request

Details of the item(s) to create

Collection ItemobjectRequired

A Collection Item represents a single entry in your collection. Each item includes:

  • System metadata - Automatically managed fields like IDs and timestamp
  • Status flags - Controls for managing content state: isDraft, isArchived
  • Content fields - Stored in fieldData. Each item needs a name and slug, and may include additional fields matching your collection’s schema definition.
OR
Multiple Live ItemsobjectRequired

Response

Request was successful
idstringRead-only
Unique identifier for the Item
lastPublishedstringRead-onlyformat: "date-string"
The date the item was last published
lastUpdatedstringRead-onlyformat: "date-string"
The date the item was last updated
createdOnstringRead-onlyformat: "date-string"
The date the item was created
fieldDataobject
cmsLocaleIdstringOptional
Identifier for the locale of the CMS item
isArchivedbooleanOptionalDefaults to false
Boolean determining if the Item is set to archived
isDraftbooleanOptionalDefaults to false

Whether the item is in a draft state. Together with lastPublished, this determines the status shown in the Webflow UI. See Publishing with the CMS API for the full mapping.

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
404
Not Found Error
429
Too Many Requests Error
500
Internal Server Error