Publishing

Share an author’s draft

Turns the draft’s preview share link on or off. Takes the draft’s exact _id (…:en:draft). Answers the draft, with its aposShareKey while the link is on: the link is the draft’s _url with aposShareKey and aposShareId (the draft’s _id) in its query.

Access: an API key with content:authors:write (or a master above it: content:authors:all, content:all, admin:all). A signed-in person may call it as far as their own permissions allow; anyone else gets 403.

Rate limit: the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120); over it, 429 with Retry-After.

POST

author

{_id}

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://{host}/api/v1/author/{_id}/share \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "share": true
}'

{
  "title": "",
  "_id": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "bio": "",
  "_user": [
    {}
  ],
  "showOnSite": true,
  "showPhoto": true,
  "slug": "",
  "visibility": "public",
  "scheduledPublish": "<string>",
  "scheduledUnpublish": "<string>",
  "archived": false,
  "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "updatedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "aposShareKey": "k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Paste your API key as the CMS showed it: fsk_<site>_<key id>_<secret> (issued under API Keys). ApiKey in front of it works too. Leave it empty to read as the public.

Scopes

content:authors:write

Path Parameters

_id

string

required

The draft’s exact _id (…:en:draft).

Body

application/json

Whether the draft can be previewed through a share link.

true adds a share key (aposShareKey) to the draft; false (the default) removes it.

Response

Done.

Author content type

title

string

default:""

required

Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.

_id

string

required

read-only

The document’s id. On a type with drafts it ends in its locale and mode (…:en:published, …:en:draft): the part before the first colon is its aposDocId, shared by both copies. The {_id} the type’s routes take.

type

string

required

read-only

The document type’s name: always this type’s.

bio

string | null

default:""

Optional one or two sentences about this author.

_user

The FetchskiCMS login account this author profile belongs to (used to source the photo, and by SSO to sync it). Leave empty for guest contributors. The related @apostrophecms/user documents, in order (empty when none). To set it, send a list of { "_id": "…" }, one per document (one at most); a document the site can’t find is left out.

Maximum array length: 1

showOnSite

boolean | null

default:true

Master switch for this author’s public byline. Turn off to hide the name AND photo on every post that credits this author.

showPhoto

boolean | null

default:true

When on, the linked login account’s profile photo appears next to this author. Has no effect without a login account, or when “Show author on the site” is off.

slug

string | null

default:""

The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept).

visibility

enum<string> | null

default:public

Select whether this content is public or private

Available options:

public,

loginRequired,

null

scheduledPublish

string | null

An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.

scheduledUnpublish

string | null

An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.

archived

boolean | null

default:false

In the archive: kept, but out of every list and off the site until it is restored. false (or null) for a live document.

createdAt

string<date-time> | null

read-only

When it was created (ISO 8601).

updatedAt

string<date-time> | null

read-only

When it last changed (ISO 8601).

The draft’s preview share key, while its share link is on: the link is the draft’s _url with aposShareKey and aposShareId (the draft’s _id) in its query. Absent otherwise, and on published documents.

Example:

"k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://{host}/api/v1/author/{_id}/share \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "share": true
}'

{
  "title": "",
  "_id": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "bio": "",
  "_user": [
    {}
  ],
  "showOnSite": true,
  "showPhoto": true,
  "slug": "",
  "visibility": "public",
  "scheduledPublish": "<string>",
  "scheduledUnpublish": "<string>",
  "archived": false,
  "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "updatedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "aposShareKey": "k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

{
  "name": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {}
}

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Share an author’s draft

Authorizations

Scopes

Path Parameters

Body

Response