---
title: "Set Default Profile"
method: POST
path: "/accounts/{{account_id}}/configuration"
tags: ["Account Configuration"]
---

# Set Default Profile

`POST /accounts/{{account_id}}/configuration`

Sets an ingest profile as the default for the account.

## Path parameters

- `account_id` string, required

## Headers

- `Content-Type` string, required
- `Authorization` string, required

## Request body

- SetDefaultProfilebody
  - `account_id` number, required — Video Cloud account ID
  - `default_profile_id` string, required — The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default
  - `default_live_profile_id` string — The id or name of the live profile you want to set as the default
  - `default_social_clipping_profile_id` string — The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default for creating social clips

## Response `200`

SUCCESS

- DefaultProfileResponse
  - `account_id` number — Video Cloud account id
  - `id` string — configuration id
  - `default_profile_id` string — profile name for video-on-demand
  - `default_live_profile_id` string — default profile name for live streams
  - `date_created` number — when the profile was created (epoch time in milliseconds)
  - `date_last_modified` number — when the profile was last modified (epoch time in milliseconds)
  - `version` number — system-managed version number

## Other responses

- `400` — BAD_REQUEST: The JSON was not valid
- `401` — NOT_AUTHORIZED: Credentials are required to access this resource.
- `404` — NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested
- `409` — CONFLICT: Account configuration already exists for 57838016001; please delete the configuration first, or update it instead.

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[API](https://skmtc.net/brightcovelearning/apis/brightcove-ingest-profiles-api-reference.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/brightcovelearning/apis/brightcove-ingest-profiles-api-reference/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/brightcovelearning/brightcove-ingest-profiles-api-reference/versions/ce468beca057/schema)