public

GET /v1/public/kb/{slug}

Read one knowledge-base article.

All public endpoints

Authentication

This endpoint is public. It takes no credential and no organisation — it is what our own marketing site and AI answer engines read.

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 GET https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/public/kb/{slug}

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

Anonymous. ⛔ A draft is a `404`, the same as a missing slug — distinguishing them would tell an anonymous caller which unpublished articles exist, which is a preview of unannounced work.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
slug (path)stringYesThe article's URL segment. Accepts the English slug, this locale's translated slug, a **retired** slug, and — since 2026-08-24 — **any other locale's** slug. An AI citation carr…
locale (query)stringNoThe language to render in; unknown values fall back to English.

Response

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
slugstringYesThe article's URL segment **in the requested locale** — the translated slug where one has been published, the English slug otherwise (#2595, §2.19). ⛔ Link to this value rather…
categorystringYesThe category slug, or empty when the article is uncategorised.
titlestringYes
summarystringYesThe meta description, the search snippet and the sentence an AI answer engine is most likely to quote (§2.18).
bodystringYesMarkdown.
localestringYes⛔ The locale the reader is **actually** getting, decided by whether the copy differs from the English rather than by what was asked for. A payload claiming `es` while carrying E…
published_atstringYes
updated_atstringYes

Errors this endpoint can return

404 · 429