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Commune Messages API

A message is a reply inside a thread, up to two levels deep. Reactionshang off a message.

Commune Messages API is one of 18 APIs that Commune publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 6 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Message. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 6 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 18 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2026-08-26.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.usecommune.com.

2 operations 2 paths 18 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2026-08-26
Base URL
https://api.usecommune.com
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, HTTP Bearer
Contact
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Commune Messages API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 13 scopes. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (Commune API key) (apiKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • oauth2 — An OAuth access token, sent as Authorization: Bearer . The walkthrough of the whole flow is at [usecommune.dev/use-cases/build-an-integration](https://usecommu…
  • apiKey — A Commune API key, sent as Authorization: Bearer . A key is granted one or more newsletters and carries six permission families on each, every one of them none…

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Messages 2

A message is a reply inside a thread, up to two levels deep. Reactions hang off a message.

GET
/threads/{thread}/messages
List a thread's messages
listThreadMessages 6 params → 200400401404429500
GET
/messages/{message}
Retrieve a message
getMessage 4 params → 200400401404429500

Schemas 18

The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Article (18 properties), Message (16 properties), Thread (16 properties), Newsletter (16 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ArticleStatus
string
Where an article is in its life. A credential holding only read permissions ever sees sent and nothing else. An imported article is always sent, since Commune…
Pagination
object
Cursor pagination state. Commune never exposes an offset or a page number: a collection is a moving window, and an offset silently skips or repeats items when…
2 properties 2 required
SocialLinks
object
The creator's other homes on the internet, stored as canonical profile URLs. Every key is optional and a newsletter that set none returns an empty object.
8 properties
ArticleStats
object
Engagement counts for an article, computed at read time. These are Commune side counts, not provider side email metrics: opens, clicks and deliveries are not h…
3 properties 3 required
User
object
A person's public profile, and the whole of what this API returns about anybody other than the credential's own owner. Email address, theme, notification prefe…
5 properties 2 required
Ref
object
An unexpanded relationship. Ask for the relationship in ?expand= to get the full object in its place.
2 properties 2 required
Message
object
A reply inside a thread. Commune allows two levels: a reply to the thread, and a reply to that reply. A deleted message is omitted from every read rather than…
16 properties 7 required
Media
object
An image or file attached to a thread or a message.
3 properties 1 required
Thread
object
A conversation in a newsletter's community, together with the message that opened it. Its replies are a separate collection.
16 properties 8 required
Error
object
The error envelope. Every non 2xx response from every operation has this shape, so a client can branch on error.code without knowing which operation produced i…
1 property 1 required
Esp
string
Where a newsletter is published from. commune means Commune itself sends the email. Every other value is an email service provider whose posts Commune imports.…
Highlight
object
A passage of an article a reader marked. Highlights are the anchor for an inline comment, which is why one can carry a link to the message it started.
11 properties 8 required
Newsletter
object
A newsletter and its public profile. Nothing operational is exposed: ESP credentials, OAuth tokens, group and audience ids, feed polling state and language det…
16 properties 6 required
Article
object
One article of a newsletter, without its body. Every collection of articles returns this shape. GET /articles/{article} returns ArticleWithContent, which is th…
18 properties 8 required
ThreadVisibility
string
Where a thread is placed. public puts it on the global Commune feed and makes it readable by anyone. subscribers keeps it inside the newsletter. paid narrows i…
ListEnvelope
object
The envelope every collection is returned in. data holds the page, pagination holds the cursor state. data is required here and typed by each list operation, a…
2 properties 3 required
ErrorCode
string
The stable, machine readable reason a request failed. New codes may be added in a minor version, so treat an unrecognised code as a generic failure of its HTTP…
Reaction
object
One emoji on a message, and how many people left it.
3 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

usecommune-messages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Commune publishes across the network.

Commune Articles API
Commune Engagement API
Commune Event delivery API
Commune Highlights API
Commune Metrics API
Commune Newsletters API
Commune Platform API
Commune Search API
Commune Senders API
Commune Sends API
Commune Subscriber tags API
Commune Subscribers API
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