# Create a draft

`POST https://api.twittrapi.com/client/drafts/create`

Save a tweet as a draft on your account without posting it.

HTML page: https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/account-actions/client-drafts-create

> Account actions run with the session cookie of your own X account and go out through your own proxy. Use only accounts you control and follow X's rules; automated posting, following or liking can get the account limited or suspended. Treat the cookie like a password. Trial keys cannot call these endpoints.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cookie` | body | string | yes |  | Cookie header of your own logged-in X session: auth_token=...; ct0=... (guest_id is used when present). How to copy it: /docs/x-session. |
| `proxy` | body | string | yes |  | Your proxy, format http://user:pass@host:port. The requests to X go out through it. Used only for this request. |
| `text` | body | string | no |  | Draft text, up to 25,000 characters. Either text or media_ids is required. |
| `media_ids` | body | string[] | no |  | Up to 4 media IDs from /client/media or /client/media/video (numeric strings). |

Body parameters are sent as a JSON object with `Content-Type: application/json`.

## Notes

- No simple format: with format=simple the answer is the usual {status_code, response} wrapper.
- The `cookie` and `proxy` fields: https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/x-session

## Response

Wrapper built by the API: {"status_code": <X status>, "response": "<X response body as a string>"}. The HTTP status is X's status when X answered 4xx or 5xx, otherwise 200. Parse response a second time to get X's JSON. On success response holds the new draft and its ID.

## Errors

| Status | When |
| --- | --- |
| 400 | The body is not valid JSON. |
| 422 | A required field is missing (including proxy), an ID is not numeric, or the cookie has no ct0. Also: the account is suspended, X rejected the session, or the text was already posted. |
| 407 | The proxy is unreachable or timed out. |
| 422 | Neither text nor media_ids is set, text is over 25,000 characters, or media_ids has more than 4 items or an ID that is not numeric. |
| X's status | Any status X answers with (for example 401, 403, 404): passed through with X's body. |

Shared errors (401 missing key, 402 no balance, 429 rate limit, 5xx) are listed on https://www.twittrapi.com/docs/helpful-infos/error-handling. Calls that fail with 400, 407, 408, 409 or a 5xx error are refunded.

## Example request

curl:

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.twittrapi.com/client/drafts/create' \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"cookie":"auth_token=...; ct0=...","proxy":"http://user:pass@host:port","text":"Post this later"}'
```

Python:

```python
import httpx

resp = httpx.post(
    "https://api.twittrapi.com/client/drafts/create",
    headers={"X-API-KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
        "cookie": "auth_token=...; ct0=...",
        "proxy": "http://user:pass@host:port",
        "text": "Post this later",
    },
    timeout=60,
)
print(resp.status_code, resp.json())
```

Node.js:

```js
const resp = await fetch("https://api.twittrapi.com/client/drafts/create", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-API-KEY": process.env.TWITTRAPI_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    cookie: "auth_token=...; ct0=...",
    proxy: "http://user:pass@host:port",
    text: "Post this later",
  }),
});
console.log(resp.status, await resp.json());
```