Public projects API — read a published project

A project becomes publicly readable only after its owner publishes it. The public surface returns a filtered view of the project — header, idea, optional research summary, optional build plan, optional Forge PRs — gated by the owner’s public_options. Unpublished or unknown slugs return 404, so brute-forcing slugs cannot leak private projects.

Get a published project

Returns the public-safe view of a project for the given slug. No authentication required.

string

required

Public project slug, of the form kebab-title-XXXXXX where XXXXXX is a 6-character salted hash.

curl "https://api.manticscore.com/public/p/ai-expense-tracker-9f4e2a"

import httpx

resp = httpx.get("https://api.manticscore.com/public/p/ai-expense-tracker-9f4e2a")
print(resp.json())

200 response

{
  "project": {
    "short_title": "AI Expense Tracker",
    "description": "Automated receipt capture for freelancers.",
    "status": "ready",
    "published_at": "2026-04-19T11:30:00Z"
  },
  "slug": "ai-expense-tracker-9f4e2a",
  "idea": {
    "raw": "AI expense tracker for freelancers",
    "one_liner": "Automated receipt capture for freelancers.",
    "problem_statement": "Freelancers waste hours each month sorting receipts.",
    "target_user": "Independent contractors and small agencies",
    "product_type": "mobile_app"
  },
  "research": {
    "top_competitors": [],
    "features": [
      {"name": "Receipt OCR", "category": "capture"}
    ],
    "white_spaces": [
      {"name": "Crypto expense reporting", "category": "fintech"}
    ]
  },
  "build_plan": {
    "nodes_count": 12,
    "expanded_count": 6
  },
  "forge_prs": [
    {
      "repo": "acme/expense-tracker",
      "pr_number": 42,
      "pr_url": "https://github.com/acme/expense-tracker/pull/42"
    }
  ],
  "author_handle": "anon",
  "cta": {
    "label": "Process your own idea →",
    "href": "/start"
  }
}

object

required

Compact project header: short_title, description, status, published_at.

string

required

The public slug (equal to the path parameter).

object

Present when public_options.show_idea is true (default). Contains raw, one_liner, problem_statement, target_user, product_type.

object

Present when public_options.show_research_summary is true (default). Contains:

Show research fields

object[]

Top competitors (incumbents + emerging, up to 10 total). Empty array when public_options.show_competitors is false.

object[]

Up to 10 features from the latest completed research run.

object[]

Up to 5 identified white spaces from the latest completed research run.

object

Present when public_options.show_build_plan is true. Contains nodes_count and expanded_count. The full build tree is never exposed publicly.

object[]

Present when public_options.show_forge_prs is true. Up to 10 most recent Forge PRs scoped to this project. Each entry has repo, pr_number, pr_url.

string

required

Author credit. Either the literal string anon (default) or the profile name when the owner set show_handle_or_anon to handle.

object

required

Call-to-action object with label and href for the public page footer.

Responses include Cache-Control: public, max-age=300, s-maxage=3600 — 5-minute browser cache, 1-hour shared cache. Returns 404 if the slug does not exist or points to a project where is_public is false.

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Public projects API — read a published project

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Get a published project