Preview article using Ghost REST API?

Developer help
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Is it possible to use Ghost’s REST API to query a draft post (to render an article preview)? Currently this preview feature is broken for my application - all pages 404.

I’m using:
GHOST_CLI_VERSION 1.7.3
GHOST_VERSION 1.23.0

One example “Preview” link of a draft post is:
https://neighborly.com/learn/p/0f485b89-fd28-4aac-b4db-e535cb311941/

Compared to a “View post link” link of a published post:
https://neighborly.com/learn/neighborly-and-madison-wi-join-forces-and-lower-denominations-on-community-bonds-so-more-residents-can-support-the-future-of-their-city/

Assuming preview posts are accessible via the REST API, I’m assuming we’d have to create some separate route (i.e. /learn/p/post-id vs. the published post route /learn/post-slug)?

Thanks!

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No. Take a look at our public api docs.

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Ah, ok, thanks Kate. So it looks like that data is accessible via the private API once we acquire a bearer token, is that correct? https://api.ghost.org/docs/user-authentication

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That suggests there’s something wrong with your web server config :thinking: Have you done any configuration outside of what Ghost-CLI does for you?

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Thanks for checking in @Kevin - the fact that the pages 404 is not surprising to me given that in our application that hits our Ghost API, we haven’t defined any route at /learn/p/post-id, which looks to be the URL generated by default in the Ghost editor for post previews.

Seems the primary failure (as @Kate pointed out) is that post drafts are not accessible via the public API. Looks like we could solve that by using the private API once we acquire a bearer token, is that correct?

This documentation mentions:

In the future this should be possible using Client Authentication.

Any idea where that lies in the Ghost roadmap?

Thanks again!

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Correct.

In the future this should be possible using Client Authentication.
Any idea where that lies in the Ghost roadmap?

Not really :expressionless:

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