## Create Credential

`credentials.create(CredentialCreateParams**kwargs)  -> Credential`

**post** `/v5/credentials`

Create a new credential for storing sensitive data like API keys, tokens, or other secrets.

### Parameters

- `name: str`

  User-friendly name for the credential

- `payload: str`

  The credential payload to be encrypted

- `type: str`

  Type of credential: key or json

- `credential_metadata: Optional[Dict[str, object]]`

  Optional unencrypted credential_metadata

- `description: Optional[str]`

  Optional description

### Returns

- `class Credential: …`

  - `id: str`

  - `created_at: datetime`

  - `created_by_identity_type: Optional[str]`

  - `created_by_user_id: Optional[str]`

  - `credential_metadata: Optional[Dict[str, object]]`

  - `description: Optional[str]`

  - `name: str`

  - `type: str`

  - `updated_at: datetime`

  - `object: Optional[str]`

### Example

```python
import os
from scale_gp_beta import SGPClient

client = SGPClient(
    api_key=os.environ.get("SGP_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
credential = client.credentials.create(
    name="x",
    payload="x",
    type="x",
)
print(credential.id)
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "created_by_identity_type": "created_by_identity_type",
  "created_by_user_id": "created_by_user_id",
  "credential_metadata": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "description": "description",
  "name": "name",
  "type": "type",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "object": "object"
}
```