How to Integrate Weebly with V0

To access the Weebly API, you need to register a developer app in the Weebly developer portal and complete the OAuth flow to get an access token for your site. Navigate to dev.weebly.com and log in with your Weebly account credentials. In the developer portal, click 'Create App' or 'Register an App'. Give your app a name and description — this is your internal reference, not visible to end users. For the OAuth redirect URI, enter your Vercel app's callback URL: https://your-app.vercel.app/api/weebly/callback. For local development, also add http://localhost:3000/api/weebly/callback. After creating the app, you receive a Client ID and Client Secret. These are your OAuth application credentials. To get an access token for a specific site, you need to complete the Weebly OAuth flow: redirect the user to Weebly's OAuth authorization URL with your Client ID, user approves access, Weebly redirects to your callback with an authorization code, and you exchange the code for an access token. For headless CMS use cases where you're accessing your own Weebly site (not building a multi-tenant Weebly app), you can complete the OAuth flow once via a script or manual browser request, get a long-lived access token, and store it as an environment variable. The access token for your own site doesn't expire unless you revoke it or change your Weebly password. This is the simplest approach for a single-site integration. Note your Weebly Site ID as well — it's visible in your Weebly admin URL (the numeric ID in the URL) and is required for all site-specific API calls.

Build Next.js API routes that fetch content from the Weebly REST API. Weebly's API base URL is https://api.weeblycloud.com/user/{user_id}/site/{site_id}/ — you need both a user ID and site ID for every request. The user ID can be found via GET /api/auth/me after authentication. For blog posts, the endpoint is GET /user/{userId}/site/{siteId}/blog/{blogId}/post with pagination parameters (page, limit). The response includes post title, body, excerpt, date_created, and author information. You'll need to first get your blog ID via GET /user/{userId}/site/{siteId}/blog. For pages, use GET /user/{userId}/site/{siteId}/page which returns all published pages with their title, URL, and page content. Pages may contain HTML content that you render in your Next.js frontend. For store products (if using Weebly's e-commerce), use GET /user/{userId}/site/{siteId}/store/product. The response includes product name, description, price, images, and SKU information. All API requests require an Authorization header with your access token: Authorization: Bearer {access_token}. The API also requires your User-Agent to be set to 'weebly-developer' or your app name. Cache API responses in your Next.js API routes using next: { revalidate: 300 } to avoid hitting Weebly's API rate limits on every page load.

1// app/api/weebly/posts/route.ts
2import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
3
4const WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN = process.env.WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN!;
5const WEEBLY_USER_ID = process.env.WEEBLY_USER_ID!;
6const WEEBLY_SITE_ID = process.env.WEEBLY_SITE_ID!;
7const WEEBLY_BLOG_ID = process.env.WEEBLY_BLOG_ID!;
8const WEEBLY_BASE = 'https://api.weeblycloud.com';
9
10const weeblyHeaders = {
11  Authorization: `Bearer ${WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN}`,
12  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
13  'X-Weebly-Access-Token': WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN,
14};
15
16export async function GET(request: Request) {
17  const { searchParams } = new URL(request.url);
18  const page = searchParams.get('page') || '1';
19  const limit = searchParams.get('limit') || '10';
20
21  const response = await fetch(
22    `${WEEBLY_BASE}/user/${WEEBLY_USER_ID}/site/${WEEBLY_SITE_ID}/blog/${WEEBLY_BLOG_ID}/post?page=${page}&limit=${limit}`,
23    {
24      headers: weeblyHeaders,
25      next: { revalidate: 300 }, // Cache 5 minutes
26    }
27  );
28
29  if (!response.ok) {
30    console.error('Weebly API error:', response.status, await response.text());
31    return NextResponse.json(
32      { error: 'Failed to fetch blog posts' },
33      { status: response.status }
34    );
35  }
36
37  const data = await response.json();
38
39  const posts = (data.data || []).map((post: any) => ({
40    id: post.blog_post_id,
41    title: post.title || 'Untitled',
42    excerpt: post.post_body?.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '').substring(0, 150) || '',
43    body: post.post_body || '',
44    author: post.author || '',
45    publishedAt: post.date ? new Date(post.date * 1000).toISOString() : null,
46    url: post.url || '',
47    tags: post.tags || [],
48  }));
49
50  return NextResponse.json({
51    posts,
52    total: data.total || posts.length,
53    page: parseInt(page),
54  });
55}

Weebly requires five environment variables: the access token, user ID, site ID, and blog ID (if fetching blog posts). All are server-only — they're used exclusively in API routes and should never be exposed to the browser. To find your Weebly User ID and Site ID, make a test API call to the Weebly API using your access token, or look in your Weebly admin URLs. The Site ID appears in the admin URL as a numeric identifier. Your User ID is your Weebly account ID, available from the API's /auth/me endpoint or your developer portal account page. In Vercel Dashboard → Settings → Environment Variables, create the following server-only variables (no NEXT_PUBLIC_ prefix): WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN, WEEBLY_USER_ID, WEEBLY_SITE_ID, and WEEBLY_BLOG_ID. Select all three scopes for each variable. For local development, add all variables to .env.local. Weebly doesn't have separate sandbox and production environments — all API calls hit the same Weebly servers, so use real credentials carefully during development. Consider creating a separate test Weebly site for development rather than testing against your production site's content. After saving variables in Vercel, trigger a redeployment. Test the API route by visiting /api/weebly/posts in your deployed app — you should see your Weebly blog posts as JSON.

1# .env.local
2WEEBLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_weebly_oauth_access_token
3WEEBLY_USER_ID=your_weebly_user_id
4WEEBLY_SITE_ID=your_weebly_site_id
5WEEBLY_BLOG_ID=your_weebly_blog_id

Now connect your V0-generated frontend components to the Weebly API routes. The key decision is whether to render content server-side (static generation or server-side rendering) or client-side. For blog listings and product catalogs, static generation with revalidation (ISR) gives the best performance — the page is pre-rendered at build time and refreshed every few minutes from the Weebly API. For a blog listing page, use a React Server Component that fetches from your /api/weebly/posts route (or directly from the Weebly API in the server component). This renders the blog list as static HTML that loads instantly for users. For individual blog posts, create a dynamic route [slug] that fetches the specific post on demand. Weebly stores blog post body content as HTML — you'll render this HTML in your Next.js component. Sanitize the HTML before rendering it to prevent XSS: use DOMPurify for client-side rendering or a library like sanitize-html for server-side. Wrap the sanitized HTML in a div with Tailwind's prose class from @tailwindcss/typography for automatic article typography styling. For V0, use follow-up prompts to refine the blog layout — adjust typography, add reading time estimates, improve the card grid spacing, and polish the mobile layout. V0 is most effective for this kind of iterative design refinement.

1// app/blog/page.tsx — Server Component with Weebly data
2import { Suspense } from 'react';
3
4async function getBlogPosts(page = 1) {
5  const baseUrl = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL || 'http://localhost:3000';
6  const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/weebly/posts?page=${page}&limit=9`, {
7    next: { revalidate: 300 }, // Revalidate every 5 minutes
8  });
9  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('Failed to fetch posts');
10  return res.json();
11}
12
13export default async function BlogPage({ searchParams }: { searchParams: { page?: string } }) {
14  const page = parseInt(searchParams.page || '1');
15  const { posts, total } = await getBlogPosts(page);
16  const totalPages = Math.ceil(total / 9);
17
18  return (
19    <main className="max-w-6xl mx-auto px-4 py-12">
20      <h1 className="text-4xl font-bold mb-8">Our Blog</h1>
21      <div className="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3 gap-6">
22        {posts.map((post: any) => (
23          <article key={post.id} className="rounded-lg border p-6 hover:shadow-md transition">
24            <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold mb-2">
25              <a href={`/blog/${post.id}`} className="hover:text-blue-600">{post.title}</a>
26            </h2>
27            <p className="text-gray-600 text-sm mb-4">{post.excerpt}...</p>
28            <div className="flex items-center justify-between text-sm text-gray-500">
29              <span>{post.author}</span>
30              <span>{post.publishedAt ? new Date(post.publishedAt).toLocaleDateString() : ''}</span>
31            </div>
32          </article>
33        ))}
34      </div>
35      {totalPages > 1 && (
36        <div className="flex justify-center gap-2 mt-8">
37          {page > 1 && <a href={`?page=${page - 1}`} className="px-4 py-2 border rounded">Previous</a>}
38          <span className="px-4 py-2">Page {page} of {totalPages}</span>
39          {page < totalPages && <a href={`?page=${page + 1}`} className="px-4 py-2 border rounded">Next</a>}
40        </div>
41      )}
42    </main>
43  );
44}