import requests

url = "https://api.parallel.ai/v1alpha/monitors"

payload = {
    "query": "Extract recent news about AI",
    "cadence": "daily"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

{
  "monitor_id": "a4aa4b06-1c62-41b5-8475-895e51aa836b",
  "query": "Extract recent news about AI",
  "status": "active",
  "cadence": "daily",
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  },
  "webhook": {
    "url": "https://example.com/webhook",
    "event_types": [
      "monitor.event.detected"
    ]
  },
  "created_at": "2025-04-23T20:21:48.037943Z"
}