Create an event

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/EventsSign in to see this endpoint's URL

The server assigns the next free ID; any ID in the body is ignored.

Request body

Optional. application/json, text/json, application/*+json, application/xml, text/xml, application/*+xml. Model: Event. The record to create.

Example body

{
  "name": "DevConf 2026",
  "category": "conference",
  "venue": "Moscone Center",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "startsAt": "2026-10-14T09:00:00Z",
  "endsAt": "2026-10-16T18:00:00Z",
  "price": 499.0,
  "capacity": 5000,
  "ticketsSold": 4312,
  "organizer": "DevConf Inc.",
  "tags": ["developers", "cloud", "ai"]
}

Responses

200: OK
201: Created; returns { message, data } with the generated ID.
400: The body is missing, malformed or fails validation.

Example

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "DevConf 2026", "category": "conference", "venue": "Moscone Center", "city": "San Francisco", "startsAt": "2026-10-14T09:00:00Z", "endsAt": "2026-10-16T18:00:00Z", "price": 499.0, "capacity": 5000, "ticketsSold": 4312, "organizer": "DevConf Inc.", "tags": ["developers", "cloud", "ai"]}' \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response201 Created

{
  "message": "Event created successfully",
  "data": {
    "id": 19,
    "name": "DevConf 2026",
    "category": "conference",
    "venue": "Moscone Center",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "startsAt": "2026-10-14T09:00:00Z",
    "endsAt": "2026-10-16T18:00:00Z",
    "price": 499.0,
    "capacity": 5000,
    "ticketsSold": 4312,
    "organizer": "DevConf Inc.",
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curl -X POST 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"name": "DevConf 2026", "category": "conference", "venue": "Moscone Center", "city": "San Francisco", "startsAt": "2026-10-14T09:00:00Z", "endsAt": "2026-10-16T18:00:00Z", "price": 499.0, "capacity": 5000, "ticketsSold": 4312, "organizer": "DevConf Inc.", "tags": ["developers", "cloud", "ai"]}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}",
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}",
});
const body: string = await res.text();
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    data="{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}",
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using System.Net.Http.Headers;

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
request.Content = new StringContent("{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}");
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("application/json");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine($"{(int)response.StatusCode} {await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()}");

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events"))
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}"))
                .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader("{\"name\": \"DevConf 2026\", \"category\": \"conference\", \"venue\": \"Moscone Center\", \"city\": \"San Francisco\", \"startsAt\": \"2026-10-14T09:00:00Z\", \"endsAt\": \"2026-10-16T18:00:00Z\", \"price\": 499.0, \"capacity\": 5000, \"ticketsSold\": 4312, \"organizer\": \"DevConf Inc.\", \"tags\": [\"developers\", \"cloud\", \"ai\"]}")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Events", body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(data))
}

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/Events

Create an event

Request body

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