Uploading a draft Zip deploy via REST API

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Hi,

We’re having issues with the netlify “deploy” command taking a long time (~5 min).

Instead, we’d like to use the Zip file method to create a draft deploy. The zip method (Get started with the Netlify API | Netlify Docs) creates a production deploy instead.

Is there a way to use the Zip method to create a draft deploy instead?

Thanks

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Any deploy that you don’t publish to production is “draft” by default, unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean by draft. Could you clarify?

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I’m facing this as well.

When I use the command below (which was copied directly from here: Get started with the Netlify API | Netlify Docs) with my site’s information, it creates a production deploy and not a draft deploy.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/zip" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
     --data-binary "@website.zip" \
     "https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites/mysite.netlify.app/deploys"

I’m trying to figure out how to adapt this command to do a draft deploy.

The docs should be updated to fix this since this can cause unexpected results.

@tomardern, did you figure out how to make this a draft deploy?

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Adding a ?draft=true query parameter to the URL seems to enable draft uploads with zip files, e.g:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/zip" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
     --data-binary "@website.zip" \
     "https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites/mysite.netlify.app/deploys?draft=true"
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