Draft a reply

A reply for a teammate to send. It waits in their composer on this conversation, where they change it and send it or throw it away; nothing reaches the customer from here. With a key it waits for whoever opens the conversation first. Writing again replaces the last draft.

POST/conversations/{id}/draft

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer token · headerrequired

`MEDIAN_KEY` from Settings under API, or an MCP OAuth access token. A key acts as the organization; a token acts as the person who approved it.

Path parameters

idstringrequired

A conversation id.

Request body

requiredapplication/json

bodystringrequired

max length 4000

Responses

200The draft, waiting.

draftIdstring

400The request is malformed, and the message names the field.

errorobject

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codestring

messagestring

401The bearer token is missing, revoked, or expired.

errorobject

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codestring

messagestring

404Not one of yours, or not there at all.

errorobject

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codestring

messagestring

429Too many requests. Wait the seconds in `Retry-After`. Limits depend on the plan. See [rate limits](/api/errors-and-limits#rate-limits).

errorobject

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codestring

messagestring

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.median.sh/v1/conversations/string/draft" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "body": "string"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.median.sh/v1/conversations/string/draft", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "body": "string"
})
});

Response

{
  "draftId": "string"
}