Builder Content API

Usage

With the Content API, you can make requests to retrieve data about any of your models within Builder. The Content API supports advanced query filtering via url parameters to allow you to get exactly the data you need. The best way to get familiar with the API is to explore it using your personalized api explorer, which you can find by clicking the blue button below.

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Sample Request and Response

curl https://builder.io/api/v2/content/YOUR_MODEL_NAME?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

# Example response
# {
#   "results": [
#     {
#       "id": "c923kd89",
#       "name": "My first homepage",
#       "data: {
#         "customField": "customValue"
#          ...
#       }
#    ]
# }

Supported Query Params

Name	Required	Description
apiKey	Yes	Your API key
userAttributes.*	No	Optionally use this to send targeting attributes, e.g.: `&userAttributes.device=desktop &userAttributes.urlPath=/about &userAttributes.userLoggedIn=true`
query.*	No	Mongodb style query of your data. E.g.: `&query.data.id=abc123 &query.data.myCustomField=someValue &query.data.someNumber.$ne=20` See more info on MongoDB's query operators and format here
fields	No	Only include these fields. E.g. `&fields=id,name,data.customField`
omit	No	Omit only these fields, E.g.: `&omit=data.bigField,data.blocks`
limit	No	Max number of results to return. Default is 1 `&limit=10`
offset	No	Results offset (for pagination). Default is 0 `&offset=10`
includeRefs	No	Include content of references in response `&includeRefs=true`
cacheSeconds	No	Seconds to cache content (sets the max-age of the cache-control header response header). Make higher for better performance, and lower for content that will change more frequently `&cacheSeconds=1230`
staleCacheSeconds	No	Builder.io uses state-while-revalidate caching at the CDN level. This means we always serve from edge cache and update caches in the background for maximum possible performance. This also means that the more frequently content is requested, the more fresh it will be. The longest we will ever hold something in stale cache is 1 day by default, and you can set this to be shorter yourself as well. We suggest keeping this high unless you have content that must change rapidly and gets very little traffic `&staleCacheSeconds=86400`
sort	No	Property to order results by, use 1 for `ascending` and -1 for `descending` `&sort.createdDate=-1 &sort.data.myCustomField=1`
includeUnpublished	No	Include unpublished (draft) content in the response, rather than the default only include published content `&includeUnpublished=true`

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