generated: '2026-09-12'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites and
  https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/docs/1.0/developers_guide_protocol
status: deprecated
headline: >-
  The Google Sites Data API is DEPRECATED and can reach only classic Google Sites. It
  cannot touch the rebuilt Google Sites that launched 2016-11-22, which is the only
  version a user can create today.
deprecation:
  deprecated: true
  policy_url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites
  announcement: >-
    Banner carried on every page of the Google Sites developer documentation:
    "Deprecated: Sites API is deprecated and might stop working at any time. Sites API
    can only access classic Sites. Sites API can't access the rebuilt version of Sites
    that was launched on November 22, 2016."
  sunset_date: null
  sunset_note: >-
    No sunset date is published. Google states only that the API "might stop working at
    any time" - which gives an integrator no window to plan against.
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  successor: null
  successor_note: >-
    There is no successor API. Google publishes no REST API for the rebuilt (new)
    Google Sites. The Apps Script classic Sites service was separately deprecated on
    2023-09-19 with the note "There isn't a way to connect to new Sites with Apps
    Script." The nearest programmatic surfaces for new Sites are indirect: Google Drive
    API (a Site is a Drive file) and the Admin SDK Reports API usage report.
versioning:
  scheme: gdata-version-header
  current: '1.4'
  mechanism: >-
    Every request should carry the HTTP header "GData-Version: 1.4". Where headers
    cannot be set, "v=1.4" may be supplied as a query parameter, though the header is
    preferred. Client libraries set it automatically.
  versions_supported:
    - '1.4'
  url_versioning: false
  note: >-
    The developer guide states "There is a single supported version of the Sites Data
    API."
status_page:
  url: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/
  name: Google Workspace Status Dashboard
  covers_product: true
  note: >-
    Google Sites is an explicitly listed service on the Google Workspace Status
    Dashboard (verified in the live service list 2026-09-12). The dashboard covers the
    Sites product; there is no separate status surface for the Data API.
  history: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/summary
sla:
  published: true
  url: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html
  note: >-
    Covered by the Google Workspace Service Level Agreement, which applies to the
    Workspace subscription that includes Google Sites, not to the deprecated Data API
    specifically.
terms:
  api_terms: https://developers.google.com/terms
  product_terms: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/premier_terms/
support:
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sites/support
  channels:
    - Google Workspace Developers community forum
    - "Stack Overflow tag [google-sites]"
    - Google Workspace admin email support
client_library_decay:
  note: >-
    See packages/google-sites-packages.yml. The only two first-party clients last
    shipped in 2013 (PyPI gdata 2.0.18) and 2012 (Maven com.google.gdata:core 1.47.1),
    and both source repositories are archived.