Take a site offline

unpublish_site

Takes a published site off its public address, so visitors can no longer reach it.

POST /v1/unpublish_siteScopepublish:writeDestructive

It permanently destroys the machines serving the live site and clears its publish date, so there is nothing to switch back on. Publishing again builds and deploys the site afresh. The site, its code and its content are all kept.

It is refused while a publish is running, with A publish is running, so the site cannot be taken offline until it finishes or is stopped!, so stop that one first with stop_publish. It is also refused when the site is not published at all. This interrupts a live site, so the tool tells the client to always confirm with you first. See Unpublish project.

Request

Call it with a POST to https://api.modulify.ai/v1/unpublish_site, sending the inputs below as a JSON object. The token needs the publish:write scope.

This method is marked destructive: it deletes or overwrites data. Check the inputs before you call it, and send an Idempotency-Key header whenever you might retry it.

curl -X POST https://api.modulify.ai/v1/unpublish_site \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"projectId":"PROJECT_ID"}'

Over MCP, the same method is the unpublish_site tool.

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
`projectId`	string	Yes	The site to take offline.

Response

Every call answers with the JSON envelope of success, message, data, code and version. data holds the result described above, and on a method that returns a total, count carries it. The response headers carry the call's X-Request-Id and what is left of your per-minute budget in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset. Errors explains every status code a call can answer with.