curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/collections' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/voices/collections (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List Voice Collections

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/collections' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Response (200 OK)
{"collections":[{}]}

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GET

GET /v1/voices/collections — ElevenLabs API

ElevenLabs API

List Voice Collections

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/collections' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

Parameters

No parameters.

Response 200 OK

{
  "collections": [
    {
      "collection_id": "string",
      "title": "string",
      "icon": "string",
      "permission_on_resource": "admin"
    }
  ]
}

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