localization
POST /v1/i18n/sources
Register translatable source fields (batch).
Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. The endpoint checks translations.register; a key without it is refused with 403, not 404.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/i18n/sources \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
Registers (or updates) source fields for auto-translation into every enabled locale (CLAUDE.md §2.19, docs/28). Each item is keyed by (surface, object_ref, field) within the calling organization; the org is taken from the credential and can never be set from the body. Batched by design. One CMS page save touches on the order of 150 translatable fields (body blocks, meta title/description, OpenGraph, JSON-LD text, alt text, breadcrumb labels, the slug). A per-field request would turn a single editorial save into 150 round-trips, so the endpoint takes up to 200 items per call; more than that is a 422 asking the caller to split the batch. Intrinsically idempotent — an Idempotency-Key is accepted but not needed. Registration is keyed on a SHA-256 of the source text: when the content hash is unchanged the call is a complete no-op (nothing is marked stale, no re-translation event is emitted, changed comes back false). Replaying the same batch therefore costs nothing and changes nothing, so unlike every other unsafe endpoint here this one needs no replay protection to be safe. The header is still accepted so that clients and generated SDKs can send it uniformly across all writes. Translation runs asynchronously afterwards — a successful response means the source is recorded and (if it changed) queued, never that any locale is translated yet. Poll GET /v1/i18n/bundles/{locale} or watch the translation.completed events.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
Idempotency-Key (header) | string | No | Client-generated key that makes an unsafe request replay-safe: the server stores the first response and returns it verbatim for repeats. |
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
items | TranslationSourceItem[] | No | The source fields to register. Capped at 200 per request — a larger batch is a 422 telling the caller to split it. Optional so that a RETIREMENT-ONLY request is expressible: the… |
prune | TranslationPruneScope | No | Retire every registered source inside this scope that is NOT named in items — the de-registration path (#735). Without it, a key deleted from the caller's catalogue leaves its… |
prune_namespace | TranslationNamespacePrune | No | Retire every registered DOCUMENT under ref_prefix that is not named in expected_refs. TranslationPruneScope retires fields inside one document; this retires documents that… |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
results | TranslationSourceResult[] | Yes | One result per submitted item, in the order submitted. |
retired | TranslationField[] | No | Field names deleted by prune, sorted. Empty when prune was absent or nothing was stale. Reported rather than assumed: a destructive operation that returns no number is… |
retired_refs | ObjectRef[] | No | object_refs deleted by prune_namespace, sorted. Empty when prune_namespace was absent or nothing was dead. Kept separate from retired on purpose: a count of retired FIELDS… |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 422 · 429