Overview - Publive Docs

The Content Management Service (CMS) provides full CRUD access to your content. Use these APIs to create, update, retrieve, and delete posts, categories, tags, and media programmatically. Base URL: https://cms.thepublive.com/publisher/{publisher_id}/

All CMS endpoints require HTTP Basic Auth via the Authorization header. Request Content-Type varies by endpoint — most POST/PATCH endpoints use application/json, but check each endpoint’s page: for example, Media Library’s create/update endpoints require multipart/form-data or application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead.

Resources

Resource	Endpoints	Description
Categories	List, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete	Manage content categories
Tags	List, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete	Manage content tags
Posts	List, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete	Manage articles, videos, galleries, and more
Media Library	List, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete	Manage images, videos, and files

Common patterns

Authentication

-H 'Authorization: Basic <BASE64_AUTH_TOKEN>'
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'  # varies by endpoint — see each endpoint's page

Pagination

All list endpoints return paginated results:

{
  "count": 245,
  "next": "https://cms.thepublive.com/publisher/123/category/?page=2&limit=10",
  "previous": null,
  "results": [...]
}

Parameter	Default	Max
`page`	1	1000
`limit`	10	50

Update method

Most update endpoints use PATCH (partial update) — you only need to send the fields you want to change. Form Schema’s update endpoint is the exception and uses PUT (full replace).

Success responses

Operation	Status	Message
Create	201	”Created Successfully”
Update	200	”Updated Successfully”
Delete	200	”Deleted successfully!”

Last modified on August 10, 2026