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Content API Introduction

The Content API allows your third-party software tool to access information relating to all existing content in Publish, whether the content has been published, drafted, scheduled, or copied.

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Note: This article offers an introduction to the Social Media Management Content API. For developer information, please visit Social Media Management's API Technical Documentation. Visit our article on Getting Access to Social Media Management APIs for first-time steps.


Content API endpoints

There are six endpoints available in the Content API:

  • Get Channel Content

  • Get Copied Content

  • Get Instagram Content

  • Get Publication Labels

  • Add Publication Labels

  • Remove Publication Labels

Note: To remain compliant with X (Twitter)’s Terms of Service, it’s not possible to include X (Twitter) content in any Content API results.


Finding a Post ID

There are two possible ways to find your Post ID:

Via the Content API

If you need the ID for your content in order to discover information relating to labels or copied posts, you can first use the Get Channel Content endpoint listed above. The results will contain the IDs for all applicable content.

Via Social Media Management

In Social Media Management, any user can easily locate the ID for your content, whether it’s a draft, scheduled post, or published post. Open any post and the ID will automatically appear in the URL, immediately following the applicable network as shown below.

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Finding a Channel ID

There are two possible ways to find the ID for your Channel:

Via the Channel API

Using the Get Channels endpoint from the Channel API, results will contain information relating to all existing channels in your Social Media Management organization including the channel ID for each.

Via Social Media Management

In Social Media Management, any user with a user role of Team Leader or Admin can find the ID for your channel by navigating to Channel Admin and selecting the channel.

The Channel ID will appear beside the channel name at the top of the page as shown below.

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Benefits of the Content API

There are four common uses for the Content API:

  1. You may decide to produce an external dashboard which displays a feed of your most recently published posts, potentially intended to be displayed on a big screen.

  2. Similarly, you could create an external dashboard which displays a feed of your Social Media Management organization’s up-coming scheduled or drafted posts.

  3. You may decide to create a custom insights report to discover, for example, the number of posts broken down by Channel, group of Channels (locales), media type, or label.

  4. Using the add publication labels endpoint, you may decide to build a custom logic to label specific content after it has been successfully published.


Accessing technical documentation

For general information about the features of our available APIs, check out our Introduction to APIs section. To view technical documentation for each Social Media Management API, please visit: falconio.docs.apiary.io.


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