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.
Google Sites publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Collaboration, Content Management, Google Workspace, Websites, and Website Builder.
Google Sites’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.
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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...
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: freemium
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Freemium
confidence: medium
source:
- plans
generated: '2026-07-22'
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
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
common:
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-12'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 14
pass: local-v3
notes: 'Contract discovery (STEP 0b) run in full. The Google Sites Data API publishes NO OpenAPI: it is absent from Google''s
own discovery directory (530 services returned by https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis on 2026-09-12, none named
`sites`), and https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/sites/v1/rest returns 404. The apis.yml baseURL https://sites.googleapis.com
and the OpenAPI pointer https://sites.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1 were both WRONG and were corrected/removed:
that host answers 403 PERMISSION_DENIED to anonymous callers and serves no public discovery document. The documented contract
is the GData v1.4 Atom/XML feed surface at https://sites.google.com/feeds/, and the API is DEPRECATED, classic-Sites-only.
No GraphQL, no MCP server, no A2A agent card, no AsyncAPI, no gRPC, no WSDL, no llms.txt, no OGC surface.'
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product
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