Setting up a connected folder through code

I work in a big studio and wish to set up our in-house material library as a connected folder. 

I want to do this through script, that way our art team won't have to mannually set things up themselves, and it'll be easy for future updates. 

However, my colleague and I are not able to locate how the connect folders are saved. We tried to use process monitor to find a config file or registery item but nothing shows up. 

We'd like to know how the "config" is saved when this happens:

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INFO][Debug: MaterialCollectionControl.cpp:734 Alg::MaterialUtils::MaterialCollectionControl::getOrCreateLinkedCollection()] Adding file:///Z:/int10/Playgrounds/Personal/kdiegert/test_empty_library to AssetReference; id = "collection://linkedfolders"; info = [CollectionAsset; files count = 0; No valid files found]

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Is it possible to set up a connected folder by modifying some file or through python?