---
title: "Approve Candidate"
method: POST
path: "/v1/admin/substack/candidates/{candidate_id}/approve"
tags: ["substack-wedge"]
---

# Approve Candidate

`POST /v1/admin/substack/candidates/{candidate_id}/approve`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.storyflo.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.storyflo.com/v1/admin/substack/candidates/{candidate_id}/approve`
- Auth: none declared

Flip the row to ``approved``. Render pipeline pick-up is a
follow-up — blocked on PR #124 (bundler) + PR #125 (worker).

## Path parameters

- `candidate_id` string, required

## Headers

- `x-storyflo-email-token` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- CandidateView
  - `id` string, required
  - `publisher_domain` string, required
  - `post_url` string, required
  - `title` string, required
  - `published_at` string, date-time, nullable, required
  - `is_paywalled` boolean, required
  - `excerpt` string, required
  - `has_full_content` boolean, required
  - `status` string, required
  - `discovered_at` string, date-time, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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