Deprecated as of version 2025-09-03
This page describes the API for versions up to and including
2022-06-28. In the new2025-09-03version, the concepts of databases and data sources were split up, as described in Upgrading to 2025-09-03.Refer to the new APIs instead:
Creates a database as a subpage in the specified parent page, with the specified properties schema. Currently, the parent of a new database must be a Notion page or a wiki database.
Integration capabilities
This endpoint requires an integration to have insert content capabilities. Attempting to call this API without insert content capabilities will return an HTTP response with a 403 status code. For more information on integration capabilities, see the capabilities guide.
Limitations
Creating new
statusdatabase properties is currently not supported.
Errors
Returns a 404 if the specified parent page does not exist, or if the integration does not have access to the parent page.
Returns a 400 if the request is incorrectly formatted, or a 429 HTTP response if the request exceeds the request limits.
Note: Each Public API endpoint can return several possible error codes. See the Error codes section of the Status codes documentation for more information.