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beehiiv is a newsletter platform for publications, posts, and subscribers. The beehiiv connector lets your Lovable app add subscribers and show posts through a shared connection. It’s designed for signup forms, post listings, and other features that use a beehiiv publication you already run. beehiiv is available as an app + chat connector: one shared connection that works in the project chat while you build and in your published apps.
For sending email from your app, use Lovable Emails. Use beehiiv when you want newsletter subscribers, posts, or publication data.
With beehiiv, your app can:
  • List the publications your API key can access
  • Show recent posts from a publication
  • Add an email address as a subscriber
  • Reactivate an existing subscriber when you ask for that
  • Save a draft post
Adding a subscriber does not send a welcome email unless you ask for one. A new post stays a draft unless you ask to publish or schedule it.

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Common use cases and example apps

These examples show what you can build with beehiiv, each with a prompt to start from.

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How to connect beehiiv

Who can create beehiiv connections depends on your plan and workspace settings. App + chat connectors are available by default on Free, Pro, and Business plans. On Enterprise plans, they are effectively disabled at first: Who can create connections and clients defaults to No one until an admin changes it in Connectors → Admin settings → App + chat connectors. You can create multiple beehiiv connections using different API keys, which is useful for separating environments (for example, development and production) or managing rate limits. When the connection is created, you can link it to the projects where you want to use it. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting beehiiv, make sure you have:
API calls through this connector count toward your beehiiv plan. Billing and quota are handled directly by beehiiv, not Lovable.

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Step 1: Get a beehiiv API key

A beehiiv API key lets your Lovable app authenticate with beehiiv. In beehiiv, only a workspace Owner or Admin can create one. To create a beehiiv API key:
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Open API settings

Sign in to beehiiv. You can also open Settings, then API under Workspace Settings.
2

Create a key

Click Create New API Key. Name the key, for example Lovable integration, then click Create New Key. beehiiv may ask you to verify your identity before it creates the key.By default the key can access every publication in the workspace. You can restrict it to specific publications. A restricted key only lists those publications, and requests for any other publication fail.
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Copy the key

Copy the key and store it securely. beehiiv shows the key only once. After you save it, click I’ve saved the key.
Your API key functions like a password. Keep it secure and never share it publicly. You’ll need it in the next step.
See beehiiv documentation for more: Create an API key.

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Step 2: Connect beehiiv to Lovable

Paste the API key from beehiiv into the connection form.
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Open beehiiv in Connectors

Open Connectors and select beehiiv. For the other places to open the catalog from, see Where to find connectors.
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Add a connection

Click Add connection and select App + chat connector. The form is split into collapsible sections, Details, Configure connection, and Sharing.
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Name the connection

Under Details, Lovable fills in a name for the connection, which you can change. The name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
4

Configure the connection

Under Configure connection, paste your key into API key. The hint under the field reads “Your beehiiv API key”. Get API key next to the field opens beehiiv’s API settings.
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Choose who can use this connection

Under Sharing, the connection is private to you by default and shows a Private label. To share it, click Share with others. Then add workspace members by email, or click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.See Who can use connections and clients for more information.
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Connect

Click Connect. Lovable verifies the API key against the beehiiv API before saving the connection.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to beehiiv (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then add subscribers and show posts from the publications that key can access.

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Limitations

The beehiiv connector cannot:
  • Publish or schedule a post unless beehiiv has enabled Send API for the workspace. beehiiv documents Send API as an Enterprise feature. The connector can still save a draft.
  • Set a subscriber custom field that does not already exist on the publication.
  • Exceed beehiiv’s organization limit of 180 requests per minute.
  • Receive subscription or post events through a managed webhook. If you ask Lovable to accept those events, the app must verify beehiiv’s webhook signature before it changes anything.
  • Support per-end-user beehiiv login. Each connection represents a single beehiiv account shared across all projects linked to it.
If a request fails because the API key was revoked or rotated in beehiiv, create a new key and update the Lovable connection.

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Manage your beehiiv connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select beehiiv, then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove beehiiv access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use beehiiv stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.