Update Draft

Update an existing draft. content is required unless you are only trashing the draft. Requires a paid Creator or Lifetime plan.

PATCH /v1/posts/{id} updates an existing draft. It is a partial update in intent — send only the fields you want to change — and the same media rules as create apply: post_type plus media_url or media_urls, with media_mime_type where the type is not obvious from the URL.

The route first fetches the draft to confirm it exists and belongs to the key's account, so a bad id fails cleanly as a 404 instead of creating something or writing to the wrong record.

Example request

Authenticate with a bearer token in the Authorization header. Create a key on the API page in your LinkedMash settings and export it as LINKEDMASH_API_KEY before running this.

curl -X PATCH "https://api.linkedmash.com/v1/posts/drf_8f3a21c9" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LINKEDMASH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "content": "5 lessons from shipping every week for a year (rewritten hook):",
    "format": "text"
  }'

Header parameters

Body parameters

Response

{
  "status": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "drf_8f3a21c9",
    "content": "5 lessons from shipping every week for a year (updated):",
    "title": "Weekly shipping lessons",
    "format": "text",
    "status": "draft",
    "created_at": "2026-06-22T09:14:02.118Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-06-22T10:02:51.640Z"
  }
}