Publishing

REST API (Payload & headless CMS)

Generic REST connector for Payload, Strapi, Directus, or any JSON API that accepts POST/PATCH.

What it does

  • Configurable base URL, collection, and auth header
  • Payload CMS: uses Lexical rich text automatically
  • Other CMSs: sends HTML with standard fields

Setup

  1. 1Integration → REST API (Payload, etc.).
  2. 2API base URL, e.g. https://www.yoursite.com
  3. 3API key and auth prefix. Payload uses users API-Key
  4. 4Collection path, e.g. blogs or posts
  5. 5Optional author and category IDs for Payload-shaped APIs.

Draft or live

Every site chooses how Spook pushes content: as a draft for you to approve in your CMS, or live immediately (with a sitemap resubmission to Google when Search Console is connected). See Draft vs live.