Containers: create

Creates a container. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/tagmanager/v1/accounts/accountId/containers

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
`accountId`	`string`	The GTM Account ID.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with the following scope (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tagmanager.edit.containers`

Request body

In the request body, supply a Containers resource with the following properties:

Property name	Value	Description	Notes
Required Properties
`name`	`string`	Container display name.	writable
`timeZoneCountryId`	`string`	Container Country ID.	writable
`timeZoneId`	`string`	Container Time Zone ID.	writable
`usageContext[]`	`list`	List of Usage Contexts for the Container. Valid values include: `web, android, ios`.	writable
Optional Properties
`domainName[]`	`list`	Optional list of domain names associated with the Container.	writable
`enabledBuiltInVariable[]`	`list`	List of enabled built-in variables. Valid values include: `pageUrl, pageHostname, pagePath, referrer, event, clickElement, clickClasses, clickId, clickTarget, clickUrl, clickText, formElement, formClasses, formId, formTarget, formUrl, formText, errorMessage, errorUrl, errorLine, newHistoryFragment, oldHistoryFragment, newHistoryState, oldHistoryState, historySource, containerVersion, debugMode, randomNumber, containerId`.	writable
`notes`	`string`	Container Notes.	writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Containers resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.
 */

/*
 * This request creates a new container for the authorized user.
 */

// Construct the container object.
Container container = new Container();
container.setName("Example Container");
container.setTimeZoneCountryId("US");
container.setTimeZoneId("America/Los_Angeles");
container.setUsageContext(Arrays.asList("web", "android", "ios"));

try {
  Container response = tagmanager.accounts().
      containers().create("12345", container).execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}


/*
 * The results of the create method are stored in the response object.
 * The following code shows how to access the created Id and Fingerprint.
 */
System.out.println("Container Id = " + response.getContainerId());
System.out.println("Container Fingerprint" + response.getFingerprint());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.

# This request creates a new container.
try:
  response = tagmanager.accounts().containers().create(
      accountId='123456',
      body={
          'name': 'Example Container',
          'timeZoneCountryId': 'US',
          'timeZoneId': 'America/Los_Angeles',
          'usageContext': ['web', 'android']
      }
  ).execute()

except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

# The results of the create method are stored in the response object.
# The following code shows how to access the created id and fingerprint.
print response.get('containerId')
print response.get('fingerprint')

Try it!

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