---
title: "Create Post"
method: POST
path: "/api/admin/news"
tags: ["news"]
---

# Create Post

`POST /api/admin/news`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com/api/admin/news`
- Auth: none declared

A new post. `slug` null makes one from the title; `publishedAt` null keeps it a draft.

## Headers

- `authorization` string

## Request body

- object

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- AdminNewsPostOut: A post as the Midfeed admin edits it, drafts included.
  - `id` integer, required
  - `slug` string, required
  - `title` string, required
  - `dek` string, required
  - `tag` string, required
  - `author` string, required
  - `bodyMd` string, required
  - `blocks` object[], required
  - `readingMinutes` integer, required
  - `videoId` string, nullable, required
  - `gameIds` integer[], required
  - `games` NewsGameRefOut[], required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `slug` string, required
    - `title` string, required
  - `cover` NewsCoverOut, required: A post's picture: `src` a 960-wide WebP, the two `srcset`s the widths in AVIF and WebP (`url 480w, url 960w, url 1600w` for a stored cover; a game's own widths when it is borrowed), and the frame's size for the box a page reserves. Pages crop it to 16:9. Site-relative, like `coverBase`.
    - `src` string, required
    - `srcsetAvif` string, required
    - `srcsetWebp` string, required
    - `width` integer, required
    - `height` integer, required
  - `coverSource` 'upload' | 'youtube' | 'game', nullable, required
  - `publishedAt` string, date-time, nullable, required
  - `createdAt` string, date-time, required
  - `updatedAt` string, date-time, required
  - `status` 'draft' | 'scheduled' | 'published', required
  - `url` string, required
  - `translations` object

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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