Create Page body.parent undefined

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I'm trying to create a Notion page using API but keep getting error

body failed validation: body.parent should be defined, instead was undefined.

I'm using an edited version of actual cURL code snippet from the documentation. Clearly the parent is defined. Also GET and PATCH API requests seem to work fine, it's just POST that won't.

curl 'https://api.notion.com/v1/pages'   -H 'Authorization: Bearer secret_SECRET'   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -H "Notion-Version: 2021-08-16"   --data '{
"parent": { "page_id": "PAGEID" }}'

(I removed the "properties" part from the request payload to simplify the snippet in question).

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 08:26

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Okay, Seems to work now. My "properties" part of payload was bad but for whatever reason notion was giving out the error about "parent".

answered Sep 07 '21 at 08:26

Jessica Brohns

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which kind of bad payload? – Jerry An Sep 19 '21 at 05:34
@JerryAn I’m not sure , I must have done something wrong but the error description threw me off. Anyway I tweaked the request changed the order of fields a bit and finally got it to work. – Jessica Brohns Sep 19 '21 at 05:39
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I got the same error message, it turned out I forgot to add `application/json` header – Jerry An Sep 20 '21 at 04:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '22 at 03:13

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I had the same error; based on @JerryAn's comment on the other answer I added a Content-Type: application/json header to my POST request and it fixed the issue.

answered Sep 19 '22 at 03:13

Jason Clark

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Create Page body.parent undefined

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