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# List Collections

## List Collections

You can see list of collections you have access to. For example, this list will include the public read-only collections, as well as all collections that were created using the currently configured API key.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="HTTP" %}

```
POST /collections/list HTTP/1.1
Api-Key: my_api_key
Content-Type: application/json
Host: my_account_id.us-west-2.aws.chatbees.ai

{
  "namespace_name": "string"
}

Response:
{
  "names": [
    "string"
  ]
}

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```
import chatbees as cb

# Configure to use the API key
cb.init(api_key="my_api_key", account_id="my_account_id")

# List collections
collections = [col.name for col in cb.list_collections()]

# returns custom_collection
print(collections)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}