contentfully
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A simple but performant REST client for Contentful.
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Contentfully
A simple but fast API client for Contentful that lets developers focus on data instead of Contentful metadata and REST structure.
Features
- Transforms Contentful responses into simple / flat JavaScript objects.
- Stripping of metadata, retaining the basics that you need (e.g. ID, contentType, and fields).
- Recursive folding of linked entries and assets without cloning (i.e. an Entry / Asset that is reference multiple times is only created once).
- Supports custom transforms of assets URLs to allow caching or rewrites.
- Supports full Content Delivery API, including custom environments and preview servers.
- Typescript 4 support.
- React Native support.
- Customizable retries when Contentful rate-limit throttling occurs.
Installation
Current stable release (1.x
)
$ npm i -s contentfully
Prerequisites
You'll need the Space ID and API key for the space that you wish to access. You can get these by doing the following after logging into the Contentful Web App:
- Navigate to your Organization / Space (usually from the upper-left space selector in the top toolbar).
- Select Settings → General Settings to find your
Space ID
. - Select Settings → API keys to see your generated API keys (you will
need to have the correct permissions on the space to do this). Create a new
API key
if you need to.
Basic Usage
Getting started is really easy. First you'll need to create and configure a
ContentfulClient
instance.
| Option | Type | Required? | Default | |--------------------|----------|-----------|--------------------| | accessToken | string | YES | | | spaceId | string | YES | | | environmentId | string | NO | master | | preview | boolean | NO | false | | fetch | Function | NO | fetch / node-fetch | | onRateLimitError | Function | NO | () => false |
Once configured, pass the client into a Contentfully
instance:
import {ContentfulClient, Contentfully} from "contentfully";
// create the contentful client (we can use this later)
const contentfulClient = new ContentfulClient({
// credentials for the space
accessToken: "YOUR_API_KEY",
spaceId: "YOUR_SPACE_ID",
// setup a handler to auto-retry when a rate-limit error occurs
onRateLimitError: ExponentialBackoffHandler.create()
});
// create a Contentfully instance
const contentfully = new Contentfully(contentfulClient);
Next, we can now query Contentful using Contenfully's getModels()
method.
The first argument to getModels()
is a query object that takes the same query
parameters as a direct Content Delivery API
call.
async function query() {
// get the 3rd page of my model objects
const json = await contentfully.getModels({
content_type: "myModel",
skip: 20,
limit: 10
});
// print the result
console.log(json);
};
query();
Contentfully will execute the query, recursively linking any assets or embedded content models, returning a basic JavaScript object without the Contentful metadata that you don't need.
It should look something like this:
{
total: 10,
skip: 20,
limit: 10,
items: [
{
_id: "5nZHNlP6zCESgGuMGKG2Q8",
_type: "myModel",
field1: "value1",
field2: "value2",
field3: false,
field5: {
_id: "m972ick1jqhi",
_type: "myModelDependency",
field1: "foo",
field2: "bar",
field3: true,
},
field6: [
1, 4, 10, 20
]
},
...
]
}
Localization with the wildcard locale parameter
Just as with the Content Delivery API, you can query entries to retrieve all localized versions of an entry by using the 'wildcard' locale=*
parameter.
However the response is different from Contentful API. The locales will be lifted to top level objects so each locale can be used holistically. Please refer to the example response below. The default locale from the space will be used to for values not defined in any locale. Fallback locales are implemented for lifted responses following Contentful's "Considerations on fallback locales" documentation. Flattening can be disabled for a query by passing the Query Option flatten=false
async function query() {
const json = await contentfully.getModels({
content_type: "myModel",
skip: 20,
limit: 10,
locale: '*'
});
// print the result
console.log(json);
};
query();
Which would return models mapped by locale:
{
total: 10,
skip: 20,
limit: 10,
items: {
"en-CA": [
{
_id: "5nZHNlP6zCESgGuMGKG2Q8",
_type: "myModel",
field1: "Hello",
field2: "",
field3: "foo",
field4: true,
field5: {
_id: "m972ick1jqhi",
_type: "myModelDependency",
field1: "foo",
field2: "bar",
field3: true
},
field6: [1, 4, 10, 20],
image: {
_id: "m12mkd123fdr4",
url: "foo.png",
title: "title",
dimensions: {
width: 1,
height: 1
},
size: 44335
}
}
],
"fr-CA": [
{
_id: "5nZHNlP6zCESgGuMGKG2Q8",
_type: "myModel",
field1: "Bonjour",
field2: "Comment vas-tu",
field3: "foo",
field3: false,
field5: {
_id: "m972ick1jqhi",
_type: "myModelDependency",
field1: "foo",
field2: "bar",
field3: true
},
field6: [2, 8, 20, 40],
image: {
_id: "m12mkd123fdr4",
url: "bar.jpg",
title: "french title",
dimensions: {
width: 2,
height: 2
},
size: 123124
}
}
]
}
}
Enabling experimental
features
There are a couple of early-access features that have been included in the v1.x.x
builds which you can enable as follows:
// create a Contentfully instance with experimental features enabled
const contentfully = new Contentfully(contentfulClient, {
experimental: true
});
This gets you access to:
- Consolidates metadata (i.e.
type
,revision
,createdAt
,updatedAt
) into a new_metadata
property of each entity, with dates translated to native JavascriptDate
objects. - More to come...
IE Support
TL;DR - We don't support IE.
By default, Contentfully
uses the native fetch client in the browser, otherwise it will use node-fetch
. Since IE does
not have fetch
native to it, use the fetch
option with something like isomorphic-fetch
when instantiating ContentfulClient
.