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BirchSeek writes articles into your Webflow blog collection through the Data API v2, always through the staged endpoint and flagged as a Draft. Nothing appears on your published site until you publish it yourself.

What BirchSeek does

  • Creates staged collection items with isDraft set - never the /items/live endpoint, so nothing goes onto the live site behind you
  • Maps the article onto the field slugs you pick: the Rich Text body field, plus optional summary, meta title, publish date, author and tags fields
  • Validates the whole mapping at connect time - the body field really is Rich Text, every mapped slug exists, and every required field on the collection has a value
  • Finds its own prior item by slug and PATCHes it in place, so a scheduled refresh replaces the article instead of adding a second one
  • Omits isDraft and isArchived on that update, so a refresh cannot pull an item you already published back into Draft

Setup

  1. Generate a Site API token

    In Webflow, open the site's Settings (the gear icon) → Apps & integrations, scroll to API access and click Generate API token. Name it BirchSeek and tick three scopes: CMS: read, CMS: write and Sites: read. Copy the token - Webflow shows it once. Only site admins can create one, and a site allows five.

    On screen: Webflow's Generate API token panel with the name BirchSeek, the CMS read, CMS write and Sites read scopes checked, and a one-time token string with a copy button.

  2. Pick the collection and map your fields

    Paste the token and choose your blog collection. BirchSeek reads the collection's schema and asks you to map the body field (which must be Rich Text) and any of summary, meta title, publish date, author, tags and canonical. Required fields BirchSeek has no value for get a constant you set once.

    On screen: The connector form with a collection picker and a mapping table listing every field slug in the collection beside its Webflow type, and a warning row for each required field still unmapped.

  3. Check access

    BirchSeek reads the collection back and reports the token, the scopes and the mapping in one result. The check does not create an item.

    On screen: A successful result naming the collection, its field count, and the body field it will write to - for example: Blog Posts, 12 fields, body → post-body.

Two Webflow limits worth knowing before you map: code blocks in Rich Text fields are not supported over the API, and a staged item has no public URL until you publish the site. Both are covered in the reference.

Webflow reference

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