Environment variables via API

[Wdotis]

Hi,

Being able to create sites via API is nice but not having the possibility to setup environment variables makes it pretty useless. Is this something in the making? I haven’t found anything about environement variables in the API docs.

Thanks!

[Frodo1980]

perhaps this can help you???

https://cli.netlify.com/commands/env

[Wdotis]

Thanks but your are referencing to the CLI and I’m referencing to the API.

[fool]

This article is the one you’ll want to read to understand how to accomplish this:

[Support Guide] Understanding and using Netlify's API

Last reviewed by Netlify Support staff: August 2023 Did you know that Netlify has an extensive public API? Anything that you configure in our Admin UI at https://app.netlify.com is managed using this same API, and you’re welcome to use it to create and configure your site(s) and perform most other operations on your account. We have an article on API Usage in our official documentation which shows how to do some common tasks like deploying your site and configuring it in great detail. It also …

There is no specific API call to set variables; it’s part of site config. Watching our UI do it will show you the call and the data shape needed

[hillary]

For folks following along on this thread, our Docs team has added the specific API operations that set environment variables for a site on Netlify:

PATCH /api/v1/sites/{site_id} updates some attributes on a site.

PUT /api/v1/sites/{site_id} updates some attributes on a site.