Switch a project's visibility between public and private

A project’s visibility is the setting that determines who can retrieve its published items. You switch it under Danger Zone on the project’s Settings screen.

Visibility is also chosen at creation time. The steps for creating a project are in Create, change, and delete a project.

Where published items can be retrieved from under Public and under Private is described in Project and Public API Settings.

A project’s visibility is a setting separate from whether an item is published. Even with a project’s visibility set to Public, an item that is not published cannot be retrieved. The steps for publishing an item are in Publish and unpublish an item.

A project can be switched to Private only in a workspace on a paid plan. On the Open & Public plan, Private appears in the selection field, but choosing it does not complete the switch.

Owner, Maintainer, and Writer can switch visibility. Reader can view it.

Switch the visibility

Sets a project’s visibility to Public or Private.

Setting it to public makes published items retrievable by anyone

Setting visibility to Public puts every item published in that project into a state where it can be retrieved without authentication. Check that no item you do not want published is among them before switching.

1. Open the project’s Settings screen.
2. In the selection field under Change project visibility in Danger Zone, choose Public or Private.
3. Read what the confirmation screen says, then click OK.

Once the switch finishes, the selection field’s display changes.

You can change visibility again at any time after switching.