How to get the scheduled publication date of a blog article

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Topic summary

Goal: Retrieve the scheduled (future) publication date for Shopify blog articles via the Admin API.

Findings:

  • Using REST/GraphQL and the article endpoint, the published_at field returns null for articles scheduled in the future. Example responses confirm published_at is nil when a “Visibility Date” is set.
  • Tested across multiple API versions (2022-04, 2022-07, 2022-10, 2023-01) with no difference in behavior.

Latest update (official):

  • Shopify confirmed this is expected: published_at is null for any unpublished article, including those with a scheduled Visibility Date.
  • There is currently no API method to distinguish an unpublished article that is scheduled from one that is simply unpublished.
  • Feedback has been forwarded to the developer team; no commitment or timeline provided.

Status and open questions:

  • No available workaround in the API to read scheduled dates for blog articles.
  • A follow-up question asks if the same limitation applies to products; unresolved in this thread (linked to a separate post).
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Is it possible to get the scheduled publication date of an article using the shopify API?

I read the API reference but couldn’t find it.

I have verified the following:

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-07/resources/blog

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-07/resources/article

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-graphql/2022-07/objects/OnlineStoreArticle

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-graphql/2022-07/objects/OnlineStoreBlog

If anyone knows, please let me know.

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Does this help

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-04/resources/article

look at the published_at field, try setting that for later date. Make sure when you do that to set the published to false.

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Thank you for your reply.

I was able to confirm that the value of “published_at” becomes “nil” when setting the publication of the day.

response:

{

“id”=>561186144405,

“title”=>“テストブログ”,

“created_at”=>“2022-11-14T15:16:39+09:00”,

“body_html”=>“テストです。”,

“author”=>“test”,

“user_id”=>nil,

“published_at”=>nil,

“updated_at”=>“2023-01-12T12:00:59+09:00”,

“summary_html”=>“”,

“template_suffix”=>“”,

“handle”=>“テストブログ”,

“tags”=>“”,

“admin_graphql_api_id”=>“gid://shopify/OnlineStoreArticle/561186144405”

}

But how can I get the scheduled release date that I set?

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if you use the “Receive a single Article” the response has the “published_at” field.

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-04/resources/article#get-blogs-blog-id-articles-article-id

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thank you.

I will refer to it.

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I have the same problem, and this doesn’t work for me. The published_at field always returns null if the blog post is scheduled in the future. I tried different API versions (2022-04, 2022-07, 2022-10, 2023-01). It makes no difference. There is no way to tell if a blog post is unpublished AND is scheduled to be published in the future.

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Thank you very much.
I felt that way too.

Thank you very much for your clear answer.

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Is this still not possible?

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Hi @iewhrgoie ,

I’ve looked into this behaviour further and after discussing with our developers I can confirm that it is expected behaviour that the published_at field will return null for any Blog Articles that are not yet published, this includes articles that has their “Visibility Date” scheduled to publish the article in the future.

At this time there is no current way to distinguish between a non-published article with or without a scheduled Visibility Date, and I do understand how this is a useful feature to have. I will be sending up feedback to our developer team to request that this feature is added to our API. We do take our partner and merchant’s feedback into great value when determining what updates and changes happen on the platform, and while we can’t guarantee this feature will be added, or when, we can guarantee that the feedback regarding this will be heard!

I hope this helps and I hope you have a great week :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you for your reply.

Is this the same case with products? I have another post here, which I simply cannot work out: https://community.shopify.com/topic/2522164