
Railway Has a Free API That Deploys Your App in 30 Seconds
Railway is a modern deployment platform that makes shipping applications ridiculously simple. But did you know it has a powerful API that lets you automate everything programmatically? What Is Railway? Railway is a cloud platform that handles infrastructure so you can focus on code. Deploy from GitHub, use templates, or push via CLI — Railway handles the rest. The Railway API Railway exposes a GraphQL API that gives you full control over your projects, deployments, and environments. Authentication Generate an API token from your Railway dashboard: # Set your token export RAILWAY_TOKEN = "your-token-here" # Query your projects curl -s https://backboard.railway.app/graphql/v2 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_TOKEN " \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"query": "{ me { name email projects { edges { node { name id } } } } }"}' | jq . Deploy a Service mutation { serviceCreate ( input : { projectId : "your-project-id" name : "my-api" source : { repo : "username/repo" } }) { id n
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