# Create Post API

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/create-post-api/964>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/create-post-api/964 "2018-04-17T12:58:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaderfeijo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/jaderfeijo/32/307_2.png) [@jaderfeijo](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jaderfeijo)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/create-post-api/964/1 "2018-04-17T12:58:34Z")

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Hi,

I am currently working on creating an extension which allows posts to be uploaded to Ghost directly from Ulysses and I was wondering where I can find information on the API endpoint for creating and publishing posts. The API documentation seems to only have information on how to GET posts, not how to POST or PUT to them.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Jader

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kevin/32/32_2.png) [@Kevin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/create-post-api/964/2 "2018-04-17T13:04:35Z")

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Hey @jaderfeijo 👋 Ghost’s write API is private so not documented anywhere, you can see this topic and particular post for more info

> [@Add More API End Points](https://forum.ghost.org/t/add-more-api-end-points/519/9):
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> Best thing to do is open [Chrome DevTools](https://developer.chrome.com/devtools) whilst using the admin area to do the actions you want to automate, you’ll then be able to inspect the API requests in the Network tab. There are also docs for [user authentication](https://api.ghost.org/docs/user-authentication) that explain how to get the necessary tokens to make private API requests. If you decide to use the private API just be aware that it’s private so that we can change it as needed. Hannah already mentioned above that we’ll be looking to overhaul the authentication in the not to…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/create-post-api/964/3 "2018-05-01T13:04:37Z")

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