For anyone still trying to do this, here is an example that worked for me. Creating the folder "Reports" under myorg locally. Using PUT url = 'http://localhost:8080/jasperserver-pro/rest_v2/resources/organizations/myorg/Reports' headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/repository.folder+json'} content = {"uri" :"/organizations/myorg/Reports", "label":"Reports", "description":"Create and save your own reports here.", "permissionMask":"0", "creationDate": "2013-07-04T12:18:47", "updateDate": "2013-07-04T12:18:47", "version":"0"}