Create a new documentation site in an organization

Creates a new documentation site within the organization. Optionally links one or more existing spaces as content sources at creation time. The site is created in an unpublished state; call the publish endpoint separately to make it publicly accessible.

Available in MCP

post

Authorizations

useroauth

AuthorizationstringRequired

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>.

Path parameters

organizationIdstringRequired

A unique entity identifier

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

Body

application/json

typestring · enumOptional

The type of the site. Defaults to:

• Sponsored for community organizations
• Ultimate for all other organizations

Possible values:

titlestring · min: 2 · max: 128Optional

Title of the site

visibilitystring · enumOptional

The visibility setting of the site determines the audience of the site.

• public: Anyone can access the site, and the site is indexed by search engines.
• unlisted: Anyone can access the site, and the site is not indexed by search engines
• share-link: Anyone with a secret token in the url can access the site.
• visitor-auth: Anyone authenticated through a JWT token can access the site.

Possible values:

spacesstring[]Optional

ID of spaces to be added to the site

Responses

201

Site created

application/json

post/orgs/{organizationId}/sites

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /v1/orgs/{organizationId}/sites HTTP/1.1
Host: api.gitbook.com
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 71

{
  "type": "basic",
  "title": "text",
  "visibility": "public",
  "spaces": [
    "text"
  ]
}

201

Site created

{
  "object": "site",
  "id": "text",
  "type": "basic",
  "appliedType": "basic",
  "title": "text",
  "icon": {
    "icon": {
      "light": "https://example.com",
      "dark": "https://example.com"
    }
  },
  "hostname": "text",
  "basename": "text",
  "proxy": {
    "origin": "text",
    "target": "text"
  },
  "visibility": "public",
  "defaultLevel": "admin",
  "permissions": {
    "view": true,
    "access": true,
    "admin": true,
    "installIntegration": true,
    "viewAdaptiveSchema": true,
    "editAdaptiveSchema": true
  },
  "published": true,
  "siteSpaces": 1,
  "gitSync": {
    "repoName": "text",
    "installationStatus": "unauthenticated",
    "installationProvider": "github",
    "installationId": "text",
    "url": "text",
    "operation": {
      "state": "running"
    },
    "updatedAt": "2026-07-21T20:55:01.640Z"
  },
  "createdAt": "2026-07-21T20:55:01.640Z",
  "adaptiveContent": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "ads": {
    "status": "pending",
    "submittable": true
  },
  "styleguide": {
    "kind": "space",
    "space": "text"
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "id": "sites-adaptive-content",
      "plan": "basic",
      "frozen": true,
      "customizations": [
        "header-logo"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "urls": {
    "location": "https://example.com",
    "app": "https://example.com",
    "published": "https://example.com",
    "preview": "https://example.com",
    "login": "https://example.com",
    "logout": "https://example.com"
  }
}