GitBook Site Preview API

Quickly generate a preview of how your site's content and layout will appear once published, allowing for final checks and refinement prior to going live.

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GET /orgs/{organizationId}/sites/{siteId}/publishing/preview Generate a temporary preview URL for a site's published content #

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OpenAPI Specification

gitbook-site-preview-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: GitBook Site Preview API
  description: The GitBook API
  termsOfService: https://policies.gitbook.com
  contact:
    name: API Support
    url: https://gitbook.com/support
    email: support@gitbook.com
  version: 0.0.1-beta
servers:
- url: '{host}/v1'
  variables:
    host:
      default: https://api.gitbook.com
security:
- user: []
- user-internal: []
- user-staff: []
- integration: []
- integration-installation: []
tags:
- name: site-preview
  x-page-title: Site preview
  x-page-description: Fetch an up-to-date preview of your site before publishing.
  x-parent: sites
  description: Quickly generate a preview of how your site's content and layout will appear once published, allowing for final checks and refinement prior to going live.
paths:
  /orgs/{organizationId}/sites/{siteId}/publishing/preview:
    get:
      operationId: getSitePublishingPreviewById
      summary: Generate a temporary preview URL for a site's published content
      description: Generates a time-limited URL (valid for 1 hour) to preview how a site will look when published. Use this to verify changes before making the site publicly accessible.
      x-gitbook-mcp: true
      tags:
      - site-preview
      security:
      - user: []
      - oauth:
        - site:read
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/siteId'
      - name: siteSpace
        in: query
        description: ID of the site-space to preview. If not provided, the default site-space will be used.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: claims
        in: query
        description: Rison encoded string of attributes/assertions about the visitor for which we want to preview the site.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: country
        in: query
        description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country of the visitor for which we want to preview the site. It is matched against the `regions` of the site adaptive schema to resolve `visitor.region`.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: visitorAuthenticated
        in: query
        description: Whether the visitor for which we want to preview the site is signed in, as `visitor.isAuthenticated` reports it. Claims outside `unsigned` already imply a signed-in visitor; set this to preview one that is signed in while carrying no claim.
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: draft
        in: query
        description: Whether to include draft content in the preview. Defaults to true
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: true
      - name: target
        in: query
        description: Target URL of the preview. If not provided, the default site preview URL will be used.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  url:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/URL'
                required:
                - url
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequestError'
components:
  responses:
    BadRequestError:
      description: Bad Request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            required:
            - error
            properties:
              error:
                type: object
                properties:
                  code:
                    type: integer
                    format: int32
                    enum:
                    - 400
                  message:
                    type: string
                required:
                - code
                - message
  parameters:
    siteId:
      name: siteId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique id of the site
      schema:
        type: string
    organizationId:
      name: organizationId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique id of the organization
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityId'
  schemas:
    EntityId:
      type: string
      pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$
      description: A unique entity identifier
    URL:
      type: string
      format: uri
      maxLength: 2048
  securitySchemes:
    user:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    user-internal:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    user-staff:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    integration:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    integration-installation:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    oauth:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/token
          scopes:
            user:read: Read your GitBook user profile.
            organization:read: Read the organizations you belong to, their settings and metadata, and their AI agent conversations.
            organization:write: Create organizations, and update organization settings and AI agent conversations.
            organization:members:read: Read organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
            organization:members:write: Manage organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
            organization:ask: Ask AI questions across an organization's content.
            organization:search: Search across an organization's content.
            space:read: Read spaces and their content, including pages, change requests and their reviews, comments, files and revision history.
            space:write: Create, update and delete spaces and their content, including change requests (create, edit, review), comments, and content imports and exports. Merging a change request also requires change-request:merge.
            space:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to spaces and collections.
            space:permissions:write: Manage who has access to spaces and collections, including inviting users and teams.
            change-request:merge: Merge change requests, publishing their changes to the space. Creating, editing and reviewing change requests only requires space:write.
            site:read: Read sites and their settings, including navigation structure, linked spaces, customization, redirects, topics, AI configuration and documentation issues.
            site:write: Create, update and delete sites and their settings, including navigation structure (sections, linked spaces, external links), customization, redirects, topics and AI configuration.
            site:publish: Publish and unpublish sites, controlling their public exposure.
            site:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to sites.
            site:permissions:write: Manage who has access to sites, including inviting users and teams.
            site:auth:read: Read how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
            site:auth:write: Manage how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
            site:insights:read: Read site analytics and insights, including the questions visitors asked Ask AI and the answers they received.
            site:ask: Ask AI questions across a site's content.
            site:search: Search across a site's content.
            integration:read: Read integrations, their status and where they are installed.
            integration:installations:read: Read integration installations and their configuration, which can include credentials for third-party services.
            integration:installations:write: Install and configure integrations on an organization, its spaces and its sites.
            integration:publish: Publish integrations, which can request their own permissions on your content, and route their events to a development tunnel.
            integration:delete: Unpublish integrations, permanently deleting them and every installation of them.
            openapi:read: Read OpenAPI specifications.
            openapi:write: Create, update and delete OpenAPI specifications.
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: GitBook
  source: https://api.gitbook.com/openapi.json
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)