Get Publication ID from Slug

Bootstrap dashboards from a publication slug in the URL

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GET https://api.zenndra.com/publication/id_for/{publication_slug}

Send your API key as Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY or x-api-key.

What you get back

Resolve a publication slug (e.g. towards-data-science) to publication_id.

What people build with it

Translate marketing links (e.g. towards-data-science) into API ids
Avoid manual lookup when onboarding new publication sources

Path parameters

Swap the placeholders in the URL for real values.

{publication_slug} Publication slug from the Medium URL

Copy & run

const res = await fetch('https://api.zenndra.com/publication/id_for/{publication_slug}', { headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' } });\nconst data = await res.json();

import requests\nurl = "https://api.zenndra.com/publication/id_for/{publication_slug}"\nheaders = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}\nr = requests.get(url, headers=headers)\nprint(r.json())

<?php\n$url = 'https://api.zenndra.com/publication/id_for/{publication_slug}';\n$ch = curl_init($url);\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY']);\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);\necho curl_exec($ch);

curl "https://api.zenndra.com/publication/id_for/{publication_slug}" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "publication_id": "7f60cf5620c9",
  "name": "Towards Data Science",
  "description": "Your home for data science"
}