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# Preview deployment not created for a fork branch

> Why fork pull requests and fork branches passed to the preview API do not produce preview deployments, and how maintainers can preview fork changes.

If a pull request opened from a fork shows no preview deployment link, this is expected behavior. The same is true if a call to the [Trigger preview deployment](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/api/preview/trigger.md) endpoint with a fork branch fails. Mintlify does not build preview deployments from fork branches.

The Mintlify GitHub App must be installed on a repository to build a preview. The app is installed on your main repository, not on contributor forks, so it cannot read a fork or build a preview against it. This applies to both automatic pull request previews and previews triggered through the API. The `branch` value in an API request must exist in the repository connected to your Mintlify project.

## Preview changes from a fork

A maintainer with write access to the main repository can push the fork's branch to the main repository, then open a pull request from that branch or pass that branch name to the API. See [Fork pull requests](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/deploy/preview-deployments.md#fork-pull-requests) for details.


## Related topics

- [Branch missing from the web editor branch list](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/help-center/branch-missing-from-editor-branch-list.md)
- [Assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/assistant/index.md)
- [Deployments](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/deploy/deployments.md)


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