Pika gets a Micropub API

The folks at Good Enough have added Micropub API support to Pika!

This was one of the things on my Pika wishlist for 2026 and I’m super happy to see it implemented. They’ve even added instructions on how to use it via iAWriter and a Drafts action (which I used to publish this post).

By default, posts made via the API are set to draft. I kind of prefer this, especially since a browser window to the draft opens after saving it so it’s super easy to review/preview and publish.

If you want to change this behavior in Drafts, I’m pretty sure you just need to edit the Post to Pika action and change:

let properties = {
	content: [body],
	"post-status": ["draft"]
};

To:

let properties = {
	content: [body],
	"post-status": ["published"]
};

And your posts should now be published instead of set to draft. Note: I have NOT actually tested this yet, so YMMV and all that good stuff.

This is a fantastic addition to Pika, and I’ll be writing all of my posts in Drafts from here on out.