Blog Authors 

Use the blog authors API to manage author information for your blog posts. Learn more about how to create and maintain your blog on the HubSpot Knowledge Base.

The following properties are deprecated and will not be included in the response of any of the V3 endpoints:

• user_id
• username
• googlePlus
• gravatarUrl
• twitterUsername
• hasSocialProfiles

The blog author API endpoints are subject to the limits defined in HubSpot's API usage guidelines. Any limits specific to a certain endpoint will be listed with the associated endpoint in the Endpoints tab above.

When you make a GET request to /cms/v3/blogs/authors, you can filter and sort the authors returned in the response using the operators and properties below. You can also use the standard filters using the createdAt and updatedAt dates.

Provide any filters as query parameters in your request, by adding the property name, followed by two underscore characters, then include the associated operator as a suffix. For example, you can filter the results to only include authors where the displayName property contains the word John using the parameter: &displayName__icontains=john.

You can include any number of filters as query parameters in the request URL. All filters are ANDed together. ORing filters is not currently supported.

The available filter types are listed below:

The table below lists the properties that can be filtered on, along with their supported filter types.

To filter blog authors based on a multi-language group, you can include one of the query parameters in the table below. For example, to get blog authors associated with the German variation of your blog, you'd include language_in=de as a query parameter.

You can provide sorting and pagination options as query parameters. Specify the property name as the value to the sort query parameter to return the blog authors in the natural order of that property. You can reverse the sorting order by including a dash character before the property name (e.g., sort=-createdAt).

By combining query parameters for filtering, sorting, and paging, you can retrieve blog authors that match more advanced search criteria. For example, the request below fetches blog authors that don't have a language assigned, ordered by the most recently updated. The limit and offset parameters below return the second page of results.

You can create blog authors by making a POST request to /cms/v3/blogs/authors, and including a JSON payload that represents the blog author model. The fullName field is required when creating a blog author. To set the URL of a blog author profile page, you must provide the slug field in your request. Review the required parameters and the structure of the blog author model in the Endpoints tab at the top of this article.

You can also create blog authors directly in your HubSpot account.

You can update a blog author by making a PATCH request to the /cms/v3/blogs/authors/{objectId} and provide the ID of the associated author as the objectId. Include a JSON payload representing the blog author model in your request. Review the required parameters and the structure of the blog author model in the Endpoints tab at the top of this article.

You can also edit a blog author's profile directly in your HubSpot account.

To help you maintain blog authors across multiple languages, HubSpot's CMS allows you to group together blog authors of language variants of the same content. A blog author with a language set may only be used on blog posts of the same language. Blog authors that do not have a language set are considered global and may be used on all blog posts.

To learn more about working with multi-language blog authors, check out this Knowledge Base article.

You can create a new language variant for an existing blog author by making a POST request to the /multi-language/create-language-variant endpoint. The endpoint accepts a JSON payload containing the id of the blog author to clone and the language identifier of the new variant.

You can add a blog author to an existing multi-language group by making a POST request to the /multi-language/attach-to-lang-group endpoint. The endpoint accepts a JSON payload containing the id of the target blog author, the language identifier of the blog author being added, and the primaryId of the blog author designated as the primary author in the target multi-language group.

You can remove a blog author from a multi-language group by making a POST request to the /multi-language/detach-from-lang-group endpoint, and including a JSON payload that contains the id of the target blog author.