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# Update a profile

POST https://experience.ninetailed.co/v2/organizations/{organizationId}/environments/{environmentSlug}/profiles/{profileId}
Content-Type: application/json

Updates an existing profile and returns it with updated variant selections. The `organizationId` is the **Client ID** from **Settings → SDK Keys → Optimization**.

Reference: https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-api/profiles/update-a-profile

## Request

### Path parameters

- `environmentSlug` (string, required, default: main) — The slug of the environment of the profile to retrieve
- `organizationId` (string, required) — The ID of the organization of the profile to retrieve
- `profileId` (string, required) — The ID of the profile to retrieve

### Query parameters

- `locale` (string, optional, default: en) — An ISO 639-1 language code used for experience evaluation.
- `type` (enum, optional) — Set to `preflight` to evaluate experiences without persisting state. Useful for SSR/ESR.
  - Allowed values: `preflight`

## Response

### 200

Successful response

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (BadRequestData, required)
- `error` (BadRequestError, optional)

### 404 Not Found Error

Organization or environment not found

- `UpdateAProfileRequestNotFoundError`

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Profile overload

- `UpdateAProfileRequestTooManyRequestsError`

### 500 Internal Server Error

Internal server error

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (InternalServerErrorData, required)
- `error` (InternalServerErrorError, optional)

## Types

### BadRequestData

### BadRequestError

- `code` (string, optional)

### configNotFoundError

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (ConfigNotFoundErrorData, required)
- `error` (ConfigNotFoundErrorError, optional)

### notFoundError

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (NotFoundErrorData, required)
- `error` (NotFoundErrorError, optional)

### profileOverloadError

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (ProfileOverloadErrorData, required)
- `error` (ProfileOverloadErrorError, optional)

### tooManyRequests

- `message` (string, required)
- `data` (TooManyRequestsData, required)
- `error` (TooManyRequestsError, optional)

### InternalServerErrorData

### InternalServerErrorError

- `code` (string, optional)

### ConfigNotFoundErrorData

### ConfigNotFoundErrorError

- `code` (string, optional)

### NotFoundErrorData

### NotFoundErrorError

- `code` (string, optional)

### ProfileOverloadErrorData

### ProfileOverloadErrorError

- `code` (string, optional)

### TooManyRequestsData

### TooManyRequestsError

- `code` (string, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "events": [
    {
      "channel": "web",
      "context": {
        "app": {
          "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        },
        "campaign": {},
        "library": {
          "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        },
        "locale": "en-US",
        "page": {
          "path": "/",
          "query": {},
          "referrer": "",
          "search": "",
          "url": "https://example.com/"
        },
        "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
      },
      "messageId": "58f358f2-a858-11ed-afa1-0242ac120002",
      "timestamp": "2022-10-10T14:36:51.262Z",
      "traits": {
        "favAnimal": "fox"
      },
      "type": "identify",
      "userId": "asdf"
    }
  ]
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": {
    "changes": [
      {
        "key": "heroTitle",
        "meta": {
          "experienceId": "exp-2",
          "variantIndex": 1
        },
        "type": "Variable",
        "value": "Welcome back!"
      }
    ],
    "experiences": [
      {
        "experienceId": "exp-1",
        "variantIndex": 1,
        "variants": {
          "entryA": "entryB"
        }
      }
    ],
    "profile": {
      "audiences": [
        "audience-1"
      ],
      "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
      "location": {},
      "random": 0.42,
      "session": {},
      "stableId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
      "traits": {
        "favAnimal": "fox"
      }
    }
  },
  "error": null,
  "message": "ok"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```javascript JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://experience.ninetailed.co/v2/organizations/{organizationId}/environments/{environmentSlug}/profiles/{profileId}', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "events": [
        {
          "channel": "web",
          "context": {
            "app": {
              "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
              "version": "1.0.0"
            },
            "library": {
              "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
              "version": "1.0.0"
            },
            "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
            "campaign": {},
            "locale": "en-US",
            "page": {
              "path": "/",
              "query": {},
              "referrer": "",
              "search": "",
              "url": "https://example.com/"
            }
          },
          "messageId": "58f358f2-a858-11ed-afa1-0242ac120002",
          "timestamp": "2022-10-10T14:36:51.262Z",
          "type": "identify",
          "traits": {
            "favAnimal": "fox"
          },
          "userId": "asdf"
        }
      ]
    }),
});
const data = await response.json();
```

```python Python
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://experience.ninetailed.co/v2/organizations/{organizationId}/environments/{environmentSlug}/profiles/{profileId}",
    headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"},
    json={"events":[{"channel":"web","context":{"app":{"name":"Ninetailed Analytics SDK","version":"1.0.0"},"library":{"name":"Ninetailed Analytics SDK","version":"1.0.0"},"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","campaign":{},"locale":"en-US","page":{"path":"/","query":{},"referrer":"","search":"","url":"https://example.com/"}},"messageId":"58f358f2-a858-11ed-afa1-0242ac120002","timestamp":"2022-10-10T14:36:51.262Z","type":"identify","traits":{"favAnimal":"fox"},"userId":"asdf"}]}
)
data = response.json()
```

```http HTTP
POST /v2/organizations/{organizationId}/environments/{environmentSlug}/profiles/{profileId} HTTP/1.1
Host: experience.ninetailed.co
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*

{
  "events": [
    {
      "channel": "web",
      "context": {
        "app": {
          "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        },
        "library": {
          "name": "Ninetailed Analytics SDK",
          "version": "1.0.0"
        },
        "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "campaign": {},
        "locale": "en-US",
        "page": {
          "path": "/",
          "query": {},
          "referrer": "",
          "search": "",
          "url": "https://example.com/"
        }
      },
      "messageId": "58f358f2-a858-11ed-afa1-0242ac120002",
      "timestamp": "2022-10-10T14:36:51.262Z",
      "type": "identify",
      "traits": {
        "favAnimal": "fox"
      },
      "userId": "asdf"
    }
  ]
}
```