Edit a Published Post

Update caption or metadata on a post that is already live. Fields you omit are left unchanged.

Platform support

Platform	Edit	Notes
Facebook	✅	message, pin, scheduled time. Only posts published through Upload-Post.
LinkedIn	✅	commentary (or text).
X	✅	Premium, within 30 minutes, fewer than 5 edits. The post ID changes.
YouTube	✅	title, description, tags, privacy, category, publishAt.
Google Business	✅	localPosts.patch.
Instagram	❌	No edit API for published media.
TikTok	❌
Threads	❌

Credential channels that implement edit (Discord, Telegram, Mastodon, Hashnode, Whop, …) are also accepted.

Endpoint

POST /api/uploadposts/posts/edit

Alias: POST /api/uploadposts/posts/action with "action": "edit" (LinkedIn).

Headers

Name	Value	Description
Authorization	Apikey your-api-key-here	Your API key for authentication
Content-Type	application/json	Request body format

Body Parameters (JSON)

Name	Type	Required	Description
platform	String	Yes	facebook, linkedin, x, youtube, google_business, plus credential channels that support edit.
user	String	Yes	Profile username.
post_id	String	Yes	Platform post ID (YouTube also accepts video_id).
message / text / commentary	String	No	New caption. Facebook: message. X: text. LinkedIn: commentary.
is_pinned	Boolean	No	Facebook: pin/unpin.
scheduled_publish_time	String	No	Facebook. Unix timestamp in seconds.
facebook_page_id	String	No	Facebook Page if not the profile default.
linkedin_visibility	String	No	LinkedIn visibility on edit.
linkedin_disable_reshare	Boolean	No	LinkedIn.
title / description / tags / privacyStatus / categoryId / publishAt	—	No	YouTube. Aliases with youtube_* prefix are accepted.

Example Request

curl -X POST https://api.upload-post.com/api/uploadposts/posts/edit \
  -H 'Authorization: Apikey your-api-key-here' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "platform": "facebook",
    "user": "my-profile",
    "post_id": "1234567890",
    "message": "Updated caption"
  }'

X:

curl -X POST https://api.upload-post.com/api/uploadposts/posts/edit \
  -H 'Authorization: Apikey your-api-key-here' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "platform": "x",
    "user": "my-profile",
    "post_id": "1234567890123456789",
    "text": "Corrected tweet"
  }'

Successful Response (200 OK)

Facebook:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "facebook",
  "post_id": "1234567890",
  "updated": ["message"]
}

X returns a new post_id. Use that id from now on; the previous id stays in edit_history_post_ids.

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "x",
  "post_id": "9876543210987654321",
  "previous_post_id": "1234567890123456789",
  "edit_history_post_ids": ["1234567890123456789", "9876543210987654321"],
  "url": "https://x.com/handle/status/9876543210987654321",
  "message": "X assigns a new post id to every edit. Use the returned post_id from now on; the previous id stays in edit_history_post_ids."
}

LinkedIn:

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "LinkedIn post updated.",
  "post_id": "urn:li:share:123",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:123/"
}

Error Responses

• 400 Bad Request — missing fields, nothing to update, or an unsupported platform (e.g. instagram, tiktok).
• 403 Forbidden — the connected account is not authorized to edit the post.
• 404 Not Found — no post found for the given post_id.
• 500 Internal Server Error

Related

• Unpublish
• Repost
• Retry a failed upload