Connect Ghost to AltoRank
Ghost authenticates with a admin api key that you create and can revoke yourself. Connecting it makes Ghost an available destination — it does not give AltoRank permission to publish. That still takes a person approving the draft.
What you will need
Setup
- 1 Create the credential in Ghost
Go to Ghost admin → Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration. AltoRank never asks for your Ghost login: you create a scoped credential there and paste it here, so revoking our access later is one click on your side and does not change how you sign in.
- 2 Add the connection in AltoRank
In your workspace, open Integrations, choose Ghost, and fill in ghost url, admin api key. The connection is tested before it saves, so a wrong value fails here rather than silently at publish time.
- 3 Approve an article
Nothing publishes on connection. Open a draft, read the fact-check verdict, and approve it. Only then does AltoRank call Ghost. You can also turn on automatic publishing for the workspace, which ships after a hold you can veto; either way there is no agent route around the approval.
What approving does in Ghost
Worth knowing
- Ghost’s Admin API is not available on their Starter plan. If you are on Starter this connector cannot work, and that is a limit on their side.
- The key is used to sign a short-lived token for every request; the key itself is never sent to Ghost.
The adapter behind this page is apps/web/lib/cms/ghost.ts . If this page and that file disagree, the file is right and the page has a bug.
Common questions
Does AltoRank publish to Ghost automatically?
Only after a person approves the specific draft. Connecting Ghost removes the copy-and-paste step; it does not hand over the decision. The publish path requires an approval recorded under a person, by click or by the rule they set, and the MCP server exposes no publish tool, so this holds even when an AI agent is driving the product.
What Ghost credentials does AltoRank need?
Ghost URL, Admin API key. Admin API key. Nothing else, and never your Ghost account password.
Can I publish to Ghost as a draft instead of live?
Not from AltoRank: the review happens here, before anything is sent, so approving is the act of publishing. On approve, Creates a post with status "published" through the Admin API, from HTML, with the meta description set. Live at once. If you want a staging destination, connect Notion as well and approve there first. Unpublishing is available afterwards: Sets the post back to draft.
Can I revoke access without breaking my site?
Yes. The credential is created in Ghost and revoked there, independently of your login. Revoking it stops AltoRank publishing and changes nothing else. Articles already published stay where they are: they are ordinary content on your platform, not embeds pointed at us.
Can I use Ghost on the self-hosted version?
Yes. Self-hosting is the same product under an open-source licence with no feature gates, so every connector works and your credentials never leave your own infrastructure. The adapter is apps/web/lib/cms/ghost.ts in the repository.
Be the site the assistant names.
Add a domain and the first draft is written while you watch. Every publish is your decision, a click on the draft or a rule you set and can hold, and you can read the source or self-host it free.
Add a domain, it sets up your workspace