Google Sites

aid: google-sites
name: Google Sites
description: Google Sites is Google's no-code website builder, bundled with Google Workspace and available at no cost to consumer
  Google Accounts. Its only public programmatic surface is the Google Sites Data API, a Google Data (GData) v1.4 Atom/XML
  API served from https://sites.google.com/feeds/ across five feeds — Site, Content, Revision, Activity and ACL — that list
  and create sites, read and write pages, announcements, file cabinets, list pages and attachments, walk revision history
  and activity, and manage sharing permissions. Google marks the API DEPRECATED on every documentation page and states it
  "might stop working at any time"; critically, it reaches only classic Google Sites and cannot touch the rebuilt Sites launched
  on 2016-11-22, which is the only version a user can create today. Google publishes no OpenAPI or discovery document for
  it, no replacement API for new Sites, no webhooks, no rate limits and no MCP server. Authorization is OAuth 2.0 with one
  coarse read-and-write scope. The two first-party client libraries are the generic GData Python and Java libraries, both
  archived, last published in 2013 and 2012.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Collaboration
- Content Management
- Google Workspace
- Websites
- Website Builder
- CMS
- Publishing
- Productivity
- Deprecated APIs
- GData
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://play.google.com/console/about/
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/google-sites-hosts.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/developers_guide
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/1.0/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/get-started
- type: Support
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://developers.googleblog.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googleworkspace
- type: Pricing
  url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://accounts.google.com/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/google-sites-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/google-sites-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-sites-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-sites-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/google-sites-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/google-sites-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/google-sites-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/google-sites-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/google-sites-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/google-sites-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/google-sites-packages.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/google-sites-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-sites-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-sites-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-sites-finops.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/google-sites-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/google-sites-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/google-sites-llms.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/google-sites-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-sites-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-sites-domain-security.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/google-sites-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/google-sites-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/google-sites-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/google-sites-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/google-sites-data-license.yml
apis:
- name: Google Sites Data API
  description: 'The Google Sites Data API is a Google Data (GData) v1.4 Atom/XML API for classic Google Sites. Five feeds
    — Site, Content, Revision, Activity and ACL — let a client list, create, copy and rename sites (create and copy are Google
    Workspace domains only), create, update and delete webpages, announcements, file cabinets, list pages, list items, comments
    and attachments, read revision history and site activity, and manage sharing permissions. Every request carries a GData-Version:
    1.4 header; entries carry gd:etag for optimistic concurrency via If-Match / If-None-Match; batch requests bundle query,
    insert, update and delete operations non-atomically. DEPRECATED: it cannot access the rebuilt Google Sites launched 2016-11-22,
    and Google publishes no successor API.'
  image: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites
  baseURL: https://sites.google.com/feeds
  tags:
  - Collaboration
  - Content Management
  - Google Workspace
  - Websites
  - Website Builder
  - Deprecated APIs
  - GData
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/developers_guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/1.0/reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/1.0/developers_guide_protocol
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/google-sites-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/google-sites-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/google-sites-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/google-sites-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/google-sites-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/google-sites-lifecycle.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/google-sites-rate-limits.yml
  aid: google-sites:google-sites-data-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-11'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v6
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: The deprecated Google Sites Data API (GData v1.4 Atom feeds at sites.google.com/feeds) is documented only in prose
    on developers.google.com; Google publishes no OpenAPI or discovery document and no API for the current Google Sites.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/1.0/reference
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-11-11'