Netlify API

Name: Netlify API
Brand: Netlify API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecCloud InfrastructureServerlessoauth2134 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Trigger deploys, manage sites, environment variables, and DNS, and stream build logs across a Netlify account.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Netlify API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Netlify API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Netlify API.

Trigger a new build for a site or restart a stuck deploy

Promote a deploy to production or roll back to a previous deploy

Set, update, and rotate environment variables across sites and contexts

Attach a custom domain and manage DNS records for a Netlify-hosted site

GET STARTED

Start building with Netlify API

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Netlify API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Programmatic Deploys from CI

Trigger a Netlify build from an external CI pipeline or content workflow when something outside Git changes (a CMS publish, a translation job, a scheduled rebuild). The API exposes site-level build hooks and deploy endpoints so the CI step can start a build, poll status, and pull logs without touching the Netlify dashboard.

POST to /sites/{site_id}/builds to start a new build, then poll /builds/{build_id} until state is 'done' and return the resulting deploy URL.

Multi-Environment Variable Management

Manage environment variables across production, deploy-preview, and branch-deploy contexts for many sites at once. The account-level env endpoints let a script or agent set, rotate, or remove a variable everywhere it appears, which is essential when secrets like API keys need rotating across an organisation.

Update STRIPE_KEY across all sites in account ACC-1 to a new value scoped to the production context only, and confirm the update on each site.

Custom Domain and DNS Automation

Provision a new custom domain on a Netlify site, attach a managed SSL certificate, and update DNS records via the API. Useful for white-label platforms that spin up a Netlify site per customer and need to attach customer-supplied domains automatically.

Attach customer.example.com to site SITE-99, provision an SSL certificate, and verify DNS resolution succeeds.

Build and Deploy Observability

Surface deploy success rates, build durations, and recent failures across all sites in an account into a dashboard or chatops channel. Combine /sites, /sites/{site_id}/deploys, and /builds endpoints to compute deploy frequency and mean time to recovery without scraping the dashboard.

List all deploys for site SITE-7 in the last 24 hours, count failures, and post a summary to the team's chat channel.

AI Agent Deploy Assistant

Let an AI agent answer 'why did my deploy fail?' and 'roll it back' through Jentic. The agent fetches the failing deploy, retrieves the build log, identifies the failing step, and either restarts the build or restores the prior deploy on the user's confirmation.

If the latest deploy of site SITE-7 has state 'error', fetch its build log, summarise the failing step, and restore the previous successful deploy.

Key Endpoints

134 endpoints — netlify is a cloud platform for deploying static sites, edge functions, and full-stack javascript applications directly from a git repository.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/accounts

List accounts the token has access to

POST

/builds/{build_id}/start

Start a build

GET

/builds/{build_id}/log

Fetch the build log

GET

/accounts/{account_id}/env

List account-scoped environment variables

GET

/deploys/{deploy_id}

Get a deploy by id

POST

/billing/payment_methods

Manage billing payment methods

GET

/accounts

List accounts the token has access to

POST

/builds/{build_id}/start

Start a build

GET

/builds/{build_id}/log

Fetch the build log

GET

/accounts/{account_id}/env

List account-scoped environment variables

GET

/deploys/{deploy_id}

Get a deploy by id

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Netlify access token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'trigger a Netlify deploy' or 'read a build log', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using Netlify API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Netlify API use?

Netlify uses OAuth 2.0 personal access tokens. Pass the token in the Authorization header as 'Bearer {token}'. Through Jentic the token is stored encrypted and rotated centrally instead of being pasted into agent code.

Can I trigger a Netlify build through the API?

Yes. POST /builds/{build_id}/start (re)starts a specific build, and POST /sites/{site_id}/builds creates a new build for a site. The response returns a build id you can poll on /builds/{build_id} for status.

Can I roll back a deploy with the Netlify API?

Yes. List deploys via GET /sites/{site_id}/deploys, then POST /deploys/{deploy_id}/restore to restore a previous deploy as the published version. The current deploy is preserved in history.

What are the rate limits for the Netlify API?

Netlify enforces 500 requests per minute per token for most endpoints, with stricter limits on deploy creation. The X-RateLimit-Remaining response header shows current budget. Plan accordingly when scripting bulk operations.

How do I stream build logs through Jentic?

Run jentic.search('get netlify build log'), load the matching operation, then execute GET /builds/{build_id}/log with the build id. Jentic returns the log payload that the agent can summarise or feed into an alert.

Can I manage environment variables across deploy contexts with the Netlify API?

Yes. The /accounts/{account_id}/env and /api/v1/sites/{site_id}/env endpoints accept per-context values for production, deploy-preview, and branch-deploy. PATCH lets you update the value in one context without touching the others.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Netlify API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Netlify operations and credentials the agent can use. You choose the exact operations it may call, so build and deploy actions like starting a build (/builds/{build_id}/start) or restoring a prior deploy (/deploys/{deploy_id}) can be allowed while billing operations such as adding a payment method stay out unless you add them. Since Netlify puts the build and deploy id in the URL path, a rule can also pin the agent to a single build or deploy.

Netlify API

Connect the Netlify API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Netlify API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs