X Articles API
Endpoints related to retrieving, creating & modifying Articles — 2 operation(s) in the X-published contract.
Endpoints related to retrieving, creating & modifying Articles — 2 operation(s) in the X-published contract.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
description: X API v2 core endpoints
version: '2.168'
title: X API v2 Articles API
termsOfService: https://developer.x.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy.html
contact:
name: X Developers
url: https://developer.x.com/
license:
name: X Developer Agreement and Policy
url: https://developer.x.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy.html
servers:
- description: X API
url: https://api.x.com
tags:
- name: Articles
description: Endpoints related to retrieving, creating & modifying Articles
externalDocs:
description: Find out more
url: https://docs.x.com/x-api/articles/introduction
paths:
/2/articles/draft:
post:
security:
- OAuth2UserToken:
- tweet.write
- UserToken: []
tags:
- Articles
summary: Create draft Article
description: Creates a new Article draft that can later be published.
operationId: articleCreateDraft
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftRequest'
required: true
responses:
'201':
description: The request has succeeded.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftResponse'
default:
description: The request has failed.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
application/problem+json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
/2/articles/{article_id}/publish:
post:
security:
- OAuth2UserToken:
- tweet.write
- UserToken: []
tags:
- Articles
summary: Publish Article
description: Publishes a draft Article, making it publicly visible.
operationId: articlePublish
parameters:
- name: article_id
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
pattern: ^[0-9]{1,19}$
style: simple
responses:
'200':
description: The request has succeeded.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticlePublishResponse'
default:
description: The request has failed.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
application/problem+json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
components:
schemas:
ArticleCreateDraftContentState:
type: object
required:
- blocks
- entities
properties:
blocks:
type: array
description: The text blocks that make up the article body.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocks'
entities:
type: array
description: Non-text entities referenced by blocks (links, embedded posts, images, emoji, markdown/code/tables, dividers, LaTeX). Full set matches article storage.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntities'
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntities:
type: object
required:
- key
- value
properties:
key:
type: string
description: The entity key referenced by entity_ranges.
value:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValue'
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValue:
type: object
required:
- type
- mutability
- data
properties:
data:
description: 'Entity payload. Fields depend on the entity type: post_id (post), url (link), media_items (image), entity_key (emoji and other opaque keys), markdown (markdown / code blocks / GFM tables). divider and latex use an empty data object; latex source is the block text; emoji uses block text for the character(s). There is no separate table entity type in article storage; tables are markdown.'
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValueData'
mutability:
type: string
description: 'Whether the entity can be edited. Recommended: immutable for post, image, divider, latex; mutable for link and markdown (matches the in-app Articles composer).'
enum:
- immutable
- mutable
- segmented
type:
type: string
description: The entity type. markdown carries code blocks, GFM tables, and other Markdown; emoji maps to backend TWEMOJI (Twemoji is internal); divider is a horizontal rule; latex renders TeX from the block text. Tables are not a separate enum value — use type markdown with a pipe table in data.markdown.
enum:
- post
- link
- image
- emoji
- markdown
- divider
- latex
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksInlineStyleRanges:
type: object
required:
- offset
- length
- style
properties:
length:
type: integer
description: Length of the styled range.
minimum: 0
offset:
type: integer
description: Start offset in the text.
minimum: 0
style:
type: string
description: The inline style.
enum:
- bold
- italic
- strikethrough
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataHashtags:
type: object
required:
- from_index
- to_index
- text
properties:
from_index:
type: integer
description: Start index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
text:
type: string
description: The tagged text.
to_index:
type: integer
description: End index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
additionalProperties: false
FieldHydrationFailureProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- field
properties:
detail:
type: string
field:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
section:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/field-hydration-failure
NotAuthorizedForResourceProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- resource_type
properties:
detail:
type: string
parameter:
type: string
resource_id:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
section:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/not-authorized-for-resource
value:
type: string
ArticlePublishResponse:
type: object
properties:
data:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticlePublishResponseData'
errors:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
ArticleCreateDraftRequest:
type: object
description: Create a draft Article.
required:
- title
- content_state
properties:
content_state:
description: DraftJS content state representing the article body. Special formatting (markdown/code/tables, dividers, LaTeX, emoji, images, embedded posts) uses atomic blocks with entity_ranges pointing into entities.
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentState'
cover_media:
description: Optional cover media for the Article.
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftCoverMedia'
title:
type: string
description: The title of the Article.
minLength: 1
additionalProperties: false
ArticlePublishResponseData:
type: object
required:
- post_id
properties:
post_id:
type: string
description: The ID of the post created for the published Article.
NotAuthorizedForFieldProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- field
properties:
detail:
type: string
field:
type: string
parameter:
type: string
resource_id:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
section:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/not-authorized-for-field
value:
type: string
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataCashtags:
type: object
required:
- from_index
- to_index
- text
properties:
from_index:
type: integer
description: Start index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
text:
type: string
description: The tagged text.
to_index:
type: integer
description: End index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataMentions:
type: object
required:
- from_index
- to_index
- text
properties:
from_index:
type: integer
description: Start index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
text:
type: string
description: The tagged text.
to_index:
type: integer
description: End index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
additionalProperties: false
Error:
type: object
required:
- code
- message
properties:
code:
type: integer
format: int32
message:
type: string
InvalidRequestProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
properties:
detail:
type: string
parameter:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/invalid-request
value:
type: string
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksData:
type: object
properties:
cashtags:
type: array
description: Cashtag spans in this block.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataCashtags'
hashtags:
type: array
description: Hashtag spans in this block.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataHashtags'
mentions:
type: array
description: Mention spans in this block.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataMentions'
urls:
type: array
description: URL spans in this block.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataUrls'
additionalProperties: false
ResourceUnavailableProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- resource_type
properties:
detail:
type: string
resource_id:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/resource-unavailable
ArticleCreateDraftCoverMedia:
type: object
required:
- media_category
- media_id
properties:
media_category:
type: string
description: The media category (e.g. tweet_image).
media_id:
type: string
description: The media ID from the media upload endpoint.
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValueDataMediaItems:
type: object
required:
- media_category
- media_id
properties:
media_category:
type: string
media_id:
type: string
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftResponseData:
type: object
required:
- id
- title
properties:
id:
type: string
description: Unique identifier of the created draft Article.
pattern: ^[0-9]{1,19}$
title:
type: string
description: The title of the draft Article.
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksEntityRanges:
type: object
required:
- key
- offset
- length
properties:
key:
type: integer
description: Index into the entities array.
minimum: 0
length:
type: integer
description: Length of the entity range.
minimum: 0
offset:
type: integer
description: Start offset in the text.
minimum: 0
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftResponse:
type: object
properties:
data:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftResponseData'
errors:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
DisallowedResourceProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
properties:
detail:
type: string
resource_id:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
section:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/disallowed-resource
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksDataUrls:
type: object
required:
- from_index
- to_index
- text
properties:
from_index:
type: integer
description: Start index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
text:
type: string
description: The tagged text.
to_index:
type: integer
description: End index of the tagged span.
minimum: 0
additionalProperties: false
InternalErrorProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
properties:
detail:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/internal-error
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocks:
type: object
required:
- text
- type
properties:
data:
description: Block-level metadata for mentions, hashtags, cashtags, and URLs.
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksData'
entity_ranges:
type: array
description: References to entries in entities.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksEntityRanges'
inline_style_ranges:
type: array
description: Inline formatting ranges.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateBlocksInlineStyleRanges'
key:
type: string
description: Optional block key.
text:
type: string
description: The text content of this block. For latex entities, this holds the LaTeX source; for divider/markdown/image/post atomic placeholders, typically a single space.
type:
type: string
description: The block type. Use atomic for non-text embeds (image, post, markdown, divider, latex).
enum:
- unstyled
- header-one
- header-two
- header-three
- unordered-list-item
- ordered-list-item
- blockquote
- atomic
additionalProperties: false
ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValueData:
type: object
properties:
caption:
type: string
description: Caption text.
entity_key:
type: string
description: Opaque entity key. Used with type emoji (and reserved for other keyed embeds) to match in-app Articles composer payloads.
markdown:
type: string
description: Markdown body for type markdown. Use fenced code blocks (```lang ... ```) for code. Max weighted length is enforced by the Articles backend (10,000 per article).
media_items:
type: array
description: Media keys. Used with type image.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleCreateDraftContentStateEntitiesValueDataMediaItems'
post_id:
type: string
description: The ID of the post to embed. Used with type post.
url:
type: string
description: The URL. Used with type link.
additionalProperties: false
Problem:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceNotFoundProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidRequestProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotAuthorizedForResourceProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotAuthorizedForFieldProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/FieldUnauthorizedProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/FieldHydrationFailureProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceUnavailableProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/DisallowedResourceProblem'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalErrorProblem'
discriminator:
propertyName: type
mapping:
https://api.x.com/2/problems/disallowed-resource: '#/components/schemas/DisallowedResourceProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/field-hydration-failure: '#/components/schemas/FieldHydrationFailureProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/field-unauthorized: '#/components/schemas/FieldUnauthorizedProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/internal-error: '#/components/schemas/InternalErrorProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/invalid-request: '#/components/schemas/InvalidRequestProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/not-authorized-for-field: '#/components/schemas/NotAuthorizedForFieldProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/not-authorized-for-resource: '#/components/schemas/NotAuthorizedForResourceProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/resource-not-found: '#/components/schemas/ResourceNotFoundProblem'
https://api.x.com/2/problems/resource-unavailable: '#/components/schemas/ResourceUnavailableProblem'
ResourceNotFoundProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- resource_type
properties:
detail:
type: string
parameter:
type: string
resource_id:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/resource-not-found
value:
type: string
FieldUnauthorizedProblem:
type: object
required:
- type
- title
- detail
- field
properties:
detail:
type: string
field:
type: string
resource_type:
type: string
section:
type: string
status:
type: integer
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
enum:
- https://api.x.com/2/problems/field-unauthorized
securitySchemes:
BearerToken:
type: http
scheme: bearer
OAuth2UserToken:
type: oauth2
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/authorize
tokenUrl: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token
scopes:
block.read: View accounts you have blocked.
block.write: Block and unblock accounts on your behalf.
bookmark.read: Read your bookmarked Posts.
bookmark.write: Create and delete your bookmarks.
broadcast.read: View your live broadcasts and their chat.
broadcast.write: Manage your live broadcasts and send chat messages on your behalf.
developer.read: View your developer accounts, apps, and settings.
developer.write: Create and manage your X Developer Platform account.
dm.read: Read all your Direct Messages.
dm.write: Send and manage your Direct Messages.
follows.read: View accounts you follow and accounts following you.
follows.write: Follow and unfollow accounts on your behalf.
like.read: View Posts you have liked and likes you can see.
like.write: Like and unlike Posts on your behalf.
list.read: View Lists, members, and followers of Lists you created or are a member of, including private Lists.
list.write: Create and manage Lists on your behalf.
media.write: Upload media, such as photos and videos, on your behalf.
mute.read: View accounts you have muted.
mute.write: Mute and unmute accounts on your behalf.
offline.access: Request a refresh token for the app.
space.read: View all Spaces you have access to.
timeline.read: View all Custom Timelines you can see.
tweet.moderate.write: Hide and unhide replies to your posts.
tweet.read: View all posts you can see, including those from protected accounts.
tweet.write: Create and repost on your behalf.
users.read: View any account you can see, including protected accounts.
UserToken:
type: http
scheme: OAuth