Quick start

By the end of this page you’ll have fetched a published document from PMKIN with nothing but an HTTP request. You need a PMKIN account and one project.

1. Publish a document

   In your project, create a document, give it a title and some text, and choose Publish. The delivery API only returns published documents, so an empty project returns an empty list.

2. Create a delivery key

   Open the project’s API page and create a key. The key can only read published content, so it’s safe on a server and in a build pipeline, but keep it out of browser code.

   Terminal

   export PMKIN_API_KEY=your-delivery-key

3. Send your first query

   The delivery API is GraphQL at one URL. Ask for the five newest documents:

   curlJavaScriptpmkin SDKPython

   curl https://content.pmkin.io/graphql \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $PMKIN_API_KEY" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"query": "{ documents(limit: 5) { title slug publishedAt } }"}'

4. Read the response

   You get exactly the fields you asked for. Ask for html to get the body ready to render, or markdown to render it yourself.

   Response

   {
     "data": {
       "documents": [
         {
           "title": "Hello, world",
           "slug": "hello-world",
           "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T09:30:00.000Z"
         }
       ]
     }
   }

Next steps#

• Build a site with a framework guide.
• See every query in the delivery API reference.
• Automate publishing with the management API.