generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.ghost.org/content-api (working example), https://docs.ghost.org/install,
  https://docs.ghost.org/ghost-cli
provider: Ghost
providerId: ghost-org
description: >-
  Ghost has no test-mode/live-mode key split, because there is no shared multi-tenant API
  to sandbox against — every Ghost site is its own deployment. What Ghost publishes
  instead are two genuine ways to exercise the API without touching production: a public
  demo site whose Content API key is printed in the documentation as a copy-and-paste
  cURL example, and a one-command local install that gives you a full Ghost with both
  APIs on localhost.
modes:
  test_live_split: false
  key_prefixes: []
  note: >-
    Content API keys and Admin API keys are per-site and per-integration; neither carries
    a mode prefix. A key is scoped to the site that issued it.
environments:
- name: public demo site
  type: hosted
  url: https://demo.ghost.io
  api_base: https://demo.ghost.io/ghost/api/content/
  credentials:
    kind: content-api-key
    published: true
    value: 22444f78447824223cefc48062
    source: https://docs.ghost.org/content-api
    note: >-
      Published verbatim by Ghost in the Content API "Working Example" as a
      copy-and-paste cURL command. Read-only, public data only.
  verified: probed
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-08-13'
    url: https://demo.ghost.io/ghost/api/content/posts/?key=<published demo key>&limit=1
    http_status: 200
  scope: Content API only. There is no public Admin API credential for the demo site.
  limits: Read-only. Writes are not possible against demo.ghost.io.
- name: local development install
  type: self-hosted
  install:
  - npm install ghost-cli@latest -g
  - ghost install local
  api_base: http://localhost:2368/ghost/api/
  database: SQLite
  docs: https://docs.ghost.org/install
  scope: Full Content API and Admin API, with a real Ghost Admin to issue keys from.
  note: >-
    This is the environment Ghost's own Admin API documentation uses in its language
    examples (http://localhost:2368/ghost/api/admin/posts/).
  credentials:
    kind: self-issued
    published: false
    how: >-
      Create a Custom Integration under Settings > Advanced > Integrations to mint a
      Content API key and an Admin API key (id:secret).
fixtures:
  seeded: true
  note: >-
    `ghost install local` seeds a fresh site with Ghost's default starter content, so
    browse endpoints return records immediately.
webhook_testing:
  stripe:
    tool: Stripe CLI
    command: stripe listen --forward-to http://localhost:2368/members/webhooks/stripe/
    docs: https://docs.ghost.org/webhooks
    note: >-
      Documented flow for exercising the members/payments path locally. Requires a
      WEBHOOK_SECRET on Ghost start.
  ghost_events:
    tool: '@tryghost/ghst'
    command: ghst webhook listen
    note: Listens for Ghost's own webhook events from the CLI.
absent:
- test cards
- test bank accounts
- test clocks / time simulation
- hosted fixture or trigger tooling
absent_note: >-
  Payments run through Stripe rather than through Ghost, so card and clock test tooling
  belongs to Stripe's sandbox, not Ghost's. Recorded as absent rather than invented.