Take a site offline by unpublishing it

Removes the site from public access by unpublishing it. The site's configuration and content are preserved; use the publish endpoint to make it accessible again. Use this when you need to temporarily hide a site or take it down for maintenance.

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_-]+$

siteIdstringRequired

The unique id of the site

Responses

200

Site unpublished successfully

application/json

objectstring · enumRequiredPossible values:

idstringRequired

Unique identifier of the site

typestring · enumRequired

The type of the site

Possible values:

appliedTypestring · enumRequired

The currently applied type of the site. For example, frozen sites will have this set to Basic.

Possible values:

titlestring · min: 2 · max: 128Required

Title of the site

iconone of · nullableOptional

or

or

objectOptional

hostnamestring · max: 512Optional

Custom hostname for the site, for e.g. docs.mycompany.com

Pattern: ^([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?[.]){2,}[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9]$

basenamestring · min: 1 · max: 100Optional

Basename for the site. For e.g. api

visibilitystring · enumRequired

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:

defaultLevelone ofRequired

Default level for a piece of content

string · enumOptional

"The role of a member in an organization. "admin": Can administrate the content: create, delete spaces, ... "create": Can create content. "review": Can review content. "edit": Can edit the content (live or change requests). "comment": Can access the content and its discussions. "read": Can access the content, but cannot update it in any way.

Possible values:

or

nullOptional

or

string · enumOptionalPossible values:

publishedbooleanRequired

Whether the site is live or not. If true, the site is accessible to the audience defined by the visibility setting.

siteSpacesnumberRequired

createdAtstring · date-timeRequired

adsone ofOptional

or

or

or

post/orgs/{organizationId}/sites/{siteId}/unpublish

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /v1/orgs/{organizationId}/sites/{siteId}/unpublish HTTP/1.1
Host: api.gitbook.com
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN
Accept: */*

200

Site unpublished successfully

{
  "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": "2026-07-21T20:33:39.986Z"
  },
  "createdAt": "2026-07-21T20:33:39.986Z",
  "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"
  }
}