Create a manual label

POST
/labels

Creates a manual label. Names are unique per workspace across manual and AI labels. To have the AI apply a label automatically, create an AI label rule instead. Supports Idempotency-Key.

Authorization

apiKey
Authorization<token>

Your 48 character Emelia API key, the same as for the Emelia API, sent as is (a Bearer prefix is tolerated). Create it at https://v3.emelia.io/settings/api. Disabling a key can take up to 5 minutes to apply to the Inbox API.

In: header

Header Parameters

Idempotency-Key?string

Any unique string (a UUID). The first successful response is stored 24 hours and replayed with Idempotent-Replay: true for the same key, method, URL and body. Same key with another body: 409 CONFLICT. Original call still running: 409 CONFLICT. Failed calls (status 400 and above) release the key. Keys are scoped to the workspace, not to the API key: two integrations of the same workspace must not reuse values. Replays count in the quotas.

Lengthlength <= 255

Request Body

application/json

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X POST "https://example.com/labels" \  -H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \  -H "Idempotency-Key: 3f6c1b2e-7d4a-4f0e-9a51-acme00000001" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "name": "Quotes",    "color": "#16a34a"  }'
{  "label": {    "id": "cmtgacme0000000000000001",    "name": "Quotes",    "color": "#16a34a",    "isAiLabel": false,    "createdAt": "2026-10-01T10:00:00.000Z"  }}