# Quick Start: The Basics > Source: https://agilitycms.com/docs/developers/quick-start-the-basics In this tutorial, we'll go through how to set up an Agility Instance, create some content, and then how to access that content using the Agility Content Fetch (REST) API. > You'll need a login for Agility in order to create an instance. ## Sign Up for an Account Navigate to [https://app.agilitycms.com/](https://app.agilitycms.com/) to sign up for a new account. You can sign up using **GitHub**, **Google**, **Microsoft**, or **Email/Password** combo. ![Sign up for an Agility Account](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/block-editor/developerarticles/image-09152021193221.png) Fill out your profile details to complete the sign up. ![Form field to sign up for Agility
](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/block-editor/developerarticles/image-09152021193329.png) ## Create a New Instance Once you've logged in to your account, you can create a new instance. If you're trying Agility out, you can start a free trial. We can always convert this later for you. Otherwise you can reach out to your CSM to have a new instance added to your Organization. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.34.26 PM-11062024193555.png) Next, choose a name for your instance. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.34.53 PM-11062024193704.png) ## Create a Content Model In order for editors to create content or to access content from the API, you'll need to define a Content Model that dictates what fields the content is comprised of. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.38.05 PM-11062024193822.png) 1. Navigate to **Models > Content Models**. In the example above, there are already a few Content Models defined. In our case, we are going to create a new one. 2. Click on the **New Content Model **button to create a new Content Model. 3. Enter a *Banner* as the **Name** and click **Add Model** to create the new model. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.38.46 PM-11062024193910.png) 4. Click the **Add a Field** button and drag and drop the **Text** field to add your first field to your newly created model. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.39.41 PM-11062024194028.png) 5. We'll name it **Title **and click **Update Field** ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.40.42 PM-11062024194113.png) 6. Next, **drag and drop** an** Image** field which we'll name "Image" ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.41.32 PM-11062024194143.png) 7. Click **Update Field** to add this to your model. 8. Click **Save** to save the changes to your model. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.41.55 PM-11062024194205.png) ## Initialize Content List / Container We need to create a list for this model before we can add items to it. Under **Content Using This Model** click **Add** to add your Banner to a Content List or set it as an individual Content Item. We'll make a Content List for Banners. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.42.39 PM-11062024194333.png) ## Ready for Content Now that you've initialized the list of *Banners*, you can access this content list to start entering content items by navigating to the **Content **(area) from the main navigation. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.44.17 PM-11062024194429.png) ## Add Content Now that you have your Banner List, you can start to enter content for it. Click the **New **button to create a new **Banner**. Populate the fields and click **Save** to save your content item. ![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 3.46.24 PM-11062024194635.png) Now that you have at least one item in the list, you are ready to query the API to retrieve the list of *Banners*. ## Access Content > You can access content using the Content Fetch REST API directly (as we will in this example), however its important to note that Agility also supports accessing content through a variety of SDKs for common programming languages. To retrieve our list of *Banners *from the API, we'll need to collect some information we'll need to authenticate and request this content. - **Guid **- this is the ID of your instance, you can retrieve this by navigating to [API Keys](https://manager.agilitycms.com/settings/apikeys) - **API Key** - this is the key you'll use to authenticate with Agility, you can retrieve this by navigating to [API Keys](https://manager.agilitycms.com/settings/apikeys) - **API Type** - this is the type of API request we are making, valid values are *fetch* (published content) or *preview *(returns content that is not published) - **Reference Name **- this is the identifier of the content list we are trying to lookup in Agility, you can retrieve this by clicking the **Settings** button on the the details of the content list - in our case this will be *Banners* - **Locale **- this is the locale code of the content you want to request (i.e. *en-us*)[](https://manager.agilitycms.com/settings/apikeys) **Making the API request:** ``` curl https://api.aglty.io/3e1a3c85-u/preview/en-us/list/banners -H 'apiKey: defaultpreview.14e9c38e5e5aeb7bf8280aa1098b592e51ed7577fc6706dfb1ee2659462708c4' { "items": [ { "contentID": 130, "properties": { "state": 1, "modified": "2021-09-15T16:24:45.173", "versionID": 1040, "referenceName": "banners", "definitionName": "Banner", "itemOrder": 0 }, "fields": { "title": "Hello World 🌎", "image": { "label": null, "url": "https://cdn.aglty.io/cwnmkkqb/posts/canadian.jpg", "target": null, "filesize": 143582, "pixelHeight": "830", "pixelWidth": "1200", "height": 830, "width": 1200 } }, "seo": null } ], "totalCount": 1 } ```