Publish the site after DELETE item

Design help Data API
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I’m using the Webflow CMS API to delete items from my CMS.

The items get deleted fine, but it seems that after deleting them I need to republish the site. Am I correct to assume that?

According to the Publish Site section of the API, I need to pass two parameters: site_id and domains.
I got the site_id right, but can’t seem to find the right thing to pass for domains.

I tried to pass my staging domain: mysite.webflow.io but that didn’t work.

When I try to list the domains associated with my site, according to the API docs, I get an empty JSON object.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Hi I had trouble with this myself as well but I figured it out. Make sure you try it on Postman so that you can see that your request is working there first. Use a POST request, add your bearer token in Authorization, set the header for accept-version to 1.0.0, and for the body use raw and pass in the correct JSON object:

{“domains”: [“test-api-domain.com”]}

You can find the domains on your webflow dashboard. Where you publish your sites manually in the editor, you’ll also be able to see your domains there. Hope this helps

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My experience is that if you do this on a site that is not published on a custom domain, it doesn’t work.

to know your domain name via the API, you have to send this request (I copy the request from the webflow API page it’s not a real request)

curl https://api.webflow.com/sites/580e63e98c9a982ac9b8b741/domains \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer d59f681797fbb3758b2a0ce8e5f31a199e2733110cb468bb2bb0d77f23417b32" \
    -H 'accept-version: 1.0.0'

If you have a custom domain you will get something like this in response

[{“_id”:“6087c72c8fa197362467U680”,“name”:“voici.xyz”,“lastPublished”:“2021-10-30T08:43:14.194Z”},{“_id”:“6087c72c8fa197362467U680”,“name”:“www.voici.xyz”,“lastPublished”:“2021-10-30T08:43:14.194Z”}]

If your site is just published on Webflow.io you get this.

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At first I thought that it means that there is no published site for the API so you can’t pushish it via API

BUT BUT

EDIT EDIT : it’s possible but be shure to respect all quotes single an double in this one
11111 is the site ID
222222 is the API key

curl https://api.webflow.com/sites/1111111111111111111111/publish \
    -H \"Authorization: Bearer 222222222222222222222222222\" \
    -H 'accept-version: 1.0.0' \
    -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \
    --data-binary $'{
      \"domains\": [\"personnal-site.webflow.io\"]
    }'