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Optimizely Content API

Manage content items including articles and other content types within the CMP content repository.

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Optimizely Content API is one of 50 APIs that Optimizely publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Content. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 11 operations across 8 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.campaign.episerver.net/rest.

11 operations 8 paths 6 schemas 1 DELETE6 GET1 PATCH2 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.optimizely.com/v2
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Contact
Optimizely Support
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Optimizely Content API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication using the Optimizely Campaign API credentials.

Paths & Operations 11

Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 1 DELETE, 6 GET, 1 PATCH, 2 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Content 11

Manage content items including articles and other content types within the CMP content repository.

GET
/content
List content
listContent 2 params → 200401
GET
/content/{contentId}
Get a content item
getContent 1 param → 200401404
GET
/content/{contentId}/children
Get content children
getContentChildren 5 params → 200401404
GET
/content/{contentId}/ancestors
Get content ancestors
getContentAncestors 3 params → 200401404
POST
/
Create a content item
createContent body → 201400401
GET
/{contentGuid}
Get content by GUID
getContentByGuid 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/{contentGuid}
Update content by GUID
updateContentByGuid 1 param body → 200201400401
PATCH
/{contentGuid}
Partially update content by GUID
patchContentByGuid 1 param body → 200400401404
DELETE
/{contentGuid}
Delete content by GUID
deleteContentByGuid 2 params → 204401404
POST
/{contentGuid}/move
Move content
moveContent 1 param body → 200400401404
GET
/{contentReference}
Get content by reference
getContentByReference 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ContentItem (13 properties), ContentItem_2 (10 properties), CmpContent (9 properties), ContentInput (7 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CmpContent
object
A content item in the CMP content repository
9 properties
Pagination
object
Pagination metadata
3 properties
ContentItem_2
object
A content item in the Optimizely CMS
10 properties
ContentItem
object
A content item such as a page, block, or media file
13 properties
ContentPatch
object
Input for partially updating a content item
3 properties
ContentInput
object
Input for creating or fully updating a content item
7 properties 3 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

optimizely-content-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
optimizely:optimizely-content-api
Base URL
https://api.optimizely.com/v2
Docs
https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/web-experimentation/docs/rest-api-introduction
Provider
Optimizely
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