Wagtail

aid: wagtail
name: Wagtail
description: 'Wagtail is a leading open-source Python content management system built on Django. It provides a REST API v2
  for accessing pages, images, documents, snippets, and custom content types in both headless and traditional deployments.
  The API delivers JSON-formatted content to web, mobile, and other non-web clients, supporting filtering, full-text search,
  field selection, and pagination. Wagtail is used by NASA, Google, NHS, Mozilla, MIT, and thousands of other organisations
  worldwide.

  '
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: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/wagtail.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wagtail/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: 2026-06-13
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- CMS
- Content Management
- Django
- Python
- Headless CMS
- Open Source
- REST API
- Pages
- Image
- Documents
tags_raw:
- CMS
- Content Management
- Django
- Python
- Headless CMS
- Open Source
- REST API
- Pages
- Images
- Documents
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: wagtail:wagtail-api-v2
  name: Wagtail API v2
  description: 'The Wagtail REST API v2 exposes site content — pages, images, documents, and redirects — as JSON. Endpoints
    support filtering by field value, tree relationships (child_of, ancestor_of, descendant_of), locale, and site. Full-text
    search, field selection, and cursor-based pagination via limit and offset are built in. Custom page models can expose
    additional fields through the api_fields attribute. Authentication is optional and configurable via Django REST Framework.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/advanced_topics/api/
  baseURL: https://{your-wagtail-site}/api/v2/
  tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - Pages
  - Image
  - Documents
  - REST API
  - Django
  - Python
  - Headless CMS
  tags_raw:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - Pages
  - Images
  - Documents
  - REST API
  - Django
  - Python
  - Headless CMS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/advanced_topics/api/v2/usage.html
  - type: Configuration
    url: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/advanced_topics/api/v2/configuration.html
  contact:
  - FN: Wagtail Community
    url: https://wagtail.org/slack
    email: hello@wagtail.org
- aid: wagtail:wagtail-api-v3
  name: Wagtail API v3
  description: 'Wagtail API v3, a preview introduced in Wagtail 8.0 and built on Django Ninja, adds authenticated CMS writes
    to content reads: create and update pages, images, documents and snippets, save draft revisions and publish them under
    the editor''s permissions. Each installation generates its own OpenAPI schema, which is how clients and agents discover
    the content types, fields and operations a site exposes. Wagtail describes it as the new API to automate common CMS tasks.

    '
  humanURL: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/api/v3/index.html
  baseURL: https://{your-wagtail-site}/api/v3/
  tags_raw:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - REST API
  - Django
  - Python
  - Headless CMS
  tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - REST API
  - Django
  - Python
  - Headless CMS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/api/v3/index.html
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-api
common:
- type: AgentSkill
  url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-api
- type: AgentSkill
  url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-backend
- type: AgentSkill
  url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-content-modeling
- type: AgentSkill
  url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-frontend
- type: AgentSkill
  url: https://github.com/wagtail/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/wagtail-upgrade
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/wagtail-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/wagtail-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://wagtail.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/advanced_topics/api/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/wagtail
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wagtail-cms
- type: Blog
  url: https://wagtail.org/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://wagtail.org/services/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/WagtailCMS
- type: Plans
  url: plans/wagtail-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/wagtail-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/wagtail-finops.yml
- type: BlogPosts
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/wagtail.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com