Deploy without the dashboard.

export DROP_URL="https://YOUR-PUBLISHED-DOMAIN"
# Set DROP_PASSWORD securely to your existing admin password.
# Keep it out of source files, chat logs and deployed content.

curl --fail-with-body "$DROP_URL/api/public/deploy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DROP_PASSWORD" \
  -F "slug=my-site" \
  -F "file=@index.html"

curl --fail-with-body "$DROP_URL/api/public/deploy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DROP_PASSWORD" \
  -F "slug=my-site" \
  -F "file=@website.zip"

curl --fail-with-body "$DROP_URL/api/public/deploy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DROP_PASSWORD" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"slug":"my-site","content":"<!doctype html><h1>Hello from an agent</h1>"}'

import os
from pathlib import Path
import requests

response = requests.post(
    os.environ["DROP_URL"] + "/api/public/deploy",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["DROP_PASSWORD"]},
    json={"slug": "my-site", "content": Path("index.html").read_text()},
    timeout=120,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json()["url"])

{
  "ok": true,
  "slug": "my-site",
  "url": "https://YOUR-PUBLISHED-DOMAIN/s/my-site/",
  "path": "/s/my-site/"
}

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": { "code": "slug_taken", "message": "That name is taken" }
}