Problem sending formatted HTML text to DeviantArt Journal via API in Make.com

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Hello!

I am trying to publish a Journal post on DeviantArt using the “POST” https://www.deviantart.com/api/v1/oauth2/deviation/journal/create endpoint from Make.com.

The request works — I get a 200 status and a valid deviationID — but any HTML formatting I include in the body field (e.g., <p’>, <h’2>) is stripped or escaped. This results in plain text only, without headings, bold, or paragraph breaks.

I have tried:

Sending the body in application/x-www-form-urlencoded format

Using HTML tags inside the body field

The output is always the same: HTML tags do not render, and the text is displayed as plain text in the published Journal.

Has anyone successfully sent HTML or rich formatting to DeviantArt Journals through the API using Make.com? Is this a Make.com encoding issue, or does DeviantArt’s API strip HTML from Journal posts by default?

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Hello,

Is anyone able to propose a solution or try to reproduce something like this on their side?

Regards

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Hello, I tried sending the request as JSON, but I got errors saying the title and is_mature parameters were invalid. I’m also not able to retrieve the deviation data using the dedicated GET endpoint—the html/body is always empty, as if the journal has no content, even though it does.

Could you advise what content type and fields the endpoint expects, and why GET returns an empty body for journals created in the editor

Regards,
Robert