Is there a programmatic way to create redirects?

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Is there a file format like Netlify’s _redirects file? Or alternatively is there an API endpoint for adding/changing them?

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We’re planning to add this to our REST API (Render API | Render · Cloud Hosting for Developers) soon! The closest analog we have to a _redirects file would be our infrastructure as code offering, Blueprints, which allows you to define redirects in a yaml file: Blueprint Specification | Render.

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Thanks @david that’s helpful. Is it possible to create/modify the render.yaml file during the build step (e.g. fetch a list of rewrite rules from a google sheet), or does that file need to be in its “final” state in version control?

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It’s the latter. We use the render.yaml file from the most recent commit.

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But the forthcoming API endpoint should handle your use case well!