BigML · Example Payload

Create Source

Upload a publicly-accessible CSV file as a BigML data source.

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Create Source is an example object payload from BigML, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "title": "Create a Source from a Remote URL",
  "description": "Upload a publicly-accessible CSV file as a BigML data source.",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://bigml.io/andromeda/source?username=myuser&api_key=a1b2c3d4e5f6789012345678",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "remote": "https://static.bigml.com/csv/iris.csv",
      "name": "Iris Dataset",
      "tags": ["iris", "demo", "classification"],
      "source_parser": {
        "header": true,
        "separator": ","
      }
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 201,
    "body": {
      "resource": "source/5f1a2b3c4d5e6f7890abcdef",
      "name": "Iris Dataset",
      "created": "2026-06-13T12:00:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-06-13T12:00:01.000Z",
      "private": true,
      "tags": ["iris", "demo", "classification"],
      "status": {
        "code": 1,
        "message": "The source is being created",
        "elapsed": 0
      },
      "file_name": "iris.csv",
      "size": 4608
    }
  }
}