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Benchling Bulk Export API

The Bulk Export API from Benchling — 1 operation(s) for bulk export.

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Operations 1

POST /bulk-export Create a bulk export task #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Benchling Bulk Export API
  version: 2.0.0
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  description: 'Operations tagged BulkExport across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: benchling-openapi.yml, benchling-v3-openapi.yaml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: /api/v3
security:
- oAuth: []
- basicApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Bulk Export
paths:
  /bulk-export:
    post:
      description: 'Create a bulk export task that will export data from the requested list of models into data files.

        The data files would be in serialized JSON format matching v3 api response spec of the models.

        The task will run asynchronously and the results can be retrieved using the bulk-export task ID.'
      operationId: BulkExport.Create
      parameters:
      - description: Set to true to access beta operations via /api/v3.
        in: header
        name: EARLY-ACCESS
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              properties:
                models:
                  additionalProperties:
                    type: object
                  example:
                    Box: {}
                    Container:
                      filters:
                        modifiedAt:
                          gte: '2025-09-15T05:22:30Z'
                  maxItems: 100
                  minItems: 1
                  type: object
              required:
              - models
              type: object
        description: Provide the list of model names to be exported.
      responses:
        '202':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  pollingUri:
                    type: string
                  taskId:
                    type: string
                type: object
          description: Task started
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      summary: Create a bulk export task
      tags:
      - Bulk Export
    servers:
    - url: /api/v3
components:
  schemas:
    GeneralError:
      properties:
        detail:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
          - object
        instance:
          type: string
        invalidId:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
        title:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
        type:
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - detail
      - status
      - instance
      type: object
    InternalServerError:
      properties:
        detail:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
          - object
        errorId:
          type: string
        instance:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
        title:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
        type:
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - detail
      - status
      - instance
      type: object
    TooManyRequestsError:
      properties:
        detail:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
          - object
        instance:
          type: string
        invalidId:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
        title:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
        type:
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - detail
      - status
      - instance
      type: object
    GeneralError_2:
      properties:
        detail:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
          - object
        instance:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
        title:
          type:
          - 'null'
          - string
        type:
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - detail
      - status
      - instance
      type: object
  responses:
    Forbidden:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeneralError'
      description: Forbidden
    BadRequest:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeneralError'
      description: Bad Request
    TooManyRequests:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TooManyRequestsError'
      description: Too Many Requests
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          description: Minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying. Only included when the request exceeded a rate limit specific to the caller. Limits shared with other callers, such as tenant-wide limits, omit this header because the wait depends on their traffic.
          required: false
          schema:
            minimum: 1
            type: integer
    NotFound:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeneralError'
      description: Not Found
    InternalServerError:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServerError'
      description: Internal Server Error
    TooManyRequests_2:
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeneralError_2'
      description: Too Many Requests
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      description: Use a short-lived V3 API Explorer token.
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
      x-fern-playground-description: Copy a short-lived V3 API Explorer token from the user's settings page
    basicApiKeyAuth:
      description: Use issued API key for standard access to the API
      scheme: basic
      type: http
    basicClientIdSecretAuth:
      description: Auth used as part of client credentials OAuth flow prior to receiving a bearer token.
      scheme: basic
      type: http
    oAuth:
      description: OAuth2 Client Credentials flow intended for service access
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          scopes: {}
          tokenUrl: /oauth/token
      type: oauth2
x-refined-from:
- benchling-openapi.yml
- benchling-v3-openapi.yaml