> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nylon.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Nylon?

> One API for publishing to every social network, and what the Nylon dashboard is for.

Nylon gives your application a single API for social accounts. Your users authorize their accounts once, and your backend works against one contract instead of one integration per network.

Nylon owns the parts that make social integrations expensive to run: the platform apps and their review queues, the OAuth dance, token refresh, per-network payload shapes, media handling, and the wildly different ways each network reports a failure.

## The three pillars

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  <Card title="Publishing" icon="send" href="/publishing">
    Post to every connected network from one request. **Live.**
  </Card>

  <Card title="Inbox" icon="message-circle" href="/inbox">
    Read and reply to DMs and comments. **Limited.**
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analytics" icon="chart-column" href="/analytics">
    Normalised metrics on one schema. **In build.**
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Only publishing, connections, profiles, network capabilities, validation and webhooks have endpoints today. The capability pages linked above say exactly what is callable.

## What the dashboard is for

Almost everything you do day to day happens over the API. The dashboard at [app.nylon.dev](https://app.nylon.dev) exists for the things an API call cannot do for you:

| Page            | What it is for                                                     |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Connections** | Authorize social accounts, and see which ones are healthy          |
| **API**         | Create and revoke the keys your backend authenticates with         |
| **Webhooks**    | Register endpoints, read delivery history, rotate signing secrets  |
| **Logs**        | Inspect every request made with your keys, with bodies and timings |
| **Test**        | Publish a one-off post to a connected profile without writing code |

Settings — your account, your team, billing and BYOK — open in a modal from the avatar in the top left of the sidebar.

## Where things live

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  <Card title="This help center" icon="life-buoy" href="/help">
    Using the dashboard: connections, keys, webhooks, team, billing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API documentation" icon="square-terminal" href="/welcome">
    Endpoints, request shapes, error codes, webhook payloads.
  </Card>
</Columns>

## Related

<Card title="Connect your first account" icon="plug" href="/help/connect-your-first-account">
  The shortest path from a new Nylon account to a published post.
</Card>