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title: First 5 minutes
status: current
order: 3
---

# First 5 minutes

From zero to reading your first content by API. If you'd rather have your agent do it, jump to [Invite your agent](../guides/invite-your-agent.md): it does these steps by itself.

## 1. Create the site

Sign in to Pluma and create a site. Its **slug** (for example `acton-estero`) goes in every API URL. See [Create the site](../guides/create-a-site.md).

## 2. Add something and publish it

In **Model**, create an `event` type with a `title` field. In **Content**, create an event and click **Publish**. Drafts don't come out of the Delivery API.

## 3. Create a read key

In **Keys**, create a **delivery** key. The token is shown only once: copy it.

```sh
export PLUMA_KEY=pluma_dlv_…
```

## 4. Read your content

```sh
curl https://pluma.so/api/v1/spaces/acton-estero/entries?content_type=event -H "Authorization: Bearer $PLUMA_KEY"
```

```json
{ "sys": { "type": "Array" }, "total": 1, "skip": 0, "limit": 100,
  "items": [ { "sys": { "id": "1", "type": "Entry", "content_type": "event", "status": "published" }, "fields": { "title": "Open House" } } ] }
```

## 5. Take it to your site

- Astro: the [Astro recipe](../frameworks/astro.md).
- Anything else: [plain fetch](../frameworks/fetch.md), a `GET` from whatever language you use.
- To make the site rebuild by itself when you publish: [Deploy on Netlify](../guides/deploy-netlify.md).

If something fails, the error says what happened and how to fix it, with a link to its page in [Errors](../errors/index.md).