Content Collections API Reference

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.0.0

Build-time content collections offer APIs to configure, query, and render your local Markdown, MDX, Markdoc, YAML, TOML, or JSON files, as well as remote content.

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

Live content collections offer APIs to configure, query, and render fresh, up-to-the-moment live data from remote sources.

For features and usage examples, see our content collections guide.

Imports from astro:content

import {
  z,
  defineCollection,
  defineLiveCollection,
  getCollection,
  getLiveCollection,
  getEntry,
  getLiveEntry,
  getEntries,
  reference,
  render
 } from 'astro:content';

defineCollection()

Type: (input: CollectionConfig) => CollectionConfig

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.0.0

A utility to configure a collection in a src/content.config.* file.

src/content.config.ts

import { z, defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { glob } from 'astro/loaders';

const blog = defineCollection({
  loader: glob({ pattern: '**/*.md', base: './src/data/blog' }),
  schema: z.object({
    title: z.string(),
    permalink: z.string().optional(),
  }),
});

// Expose your defined collection to Astro
// with the `collections` export
export const collections = { blog };

This function accepts the following properties:

loader

Type: () => Promise<Array<{ id: string, [key: string]: any }> | Record<string, Record<string, any>>> | Loader

जोड़ा गया: astro@5.0.0

Either an object or a function that allows you to load data from any source, local or remote, into a build-time content collection. (For live collections, see the live loader property.)

Learn about build-time collection loaders with guided explanations and example usage.

schema

Type: ZodType | (context: SchemaContext) => ZodType

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.0.0

An optional Zod object or function that returns a Zod object to configure the type and shape of document frontmatter for a collection. Each value must use a Zod validator. (For live collections, see the live schema property.)

Learn about defining a collection schema using Zod with guided explanations, example usage, and common datatypes.

defineLiveCollection()

Type: (config: LiveCollectionConfig) => LiveCollectionConfig

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

A utility to configure a live collection in a src/live.config.* file.

src/live.config.ts

import { defineLiveCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { storeLoader } from '@example/astro-loader';

const products = defineLiveCollection({
  loader: storeLoader({
    apiKey: process.env.STORE_API_KEY,
    endpoint: 'https://api.example.com/v1',
  }),
});

// Expose your defined collection to Astro
// with the `collections` export
export const collections = { products };

This function accepts the following properties:

loader

Type: LiveLoader

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

An object that allows you to load data at runtime from a remote source into a live content collection. (For build-time collections, see the build-time loader property.)

Learn how to create a live loader with guided explanations and example usage.

schema

Type: ZodType

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

An optional Zod object to configure the type and shape of your data for a live collection. Each value must use a Zod validator. (For build-time collections, see the build-time schema property.)

When you define a schema, it will take precedence over the live loader’s types when you query the collection.

Learn about using Zod schemas with live collections through guided explanations and usage examples.

reference()

Type: (collection: CollectionKey) => ZodEffects<ZodString, { collection: CollectionKey, id: string }>

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.5.0

A function used in the content config to define a relationship, or “reference”, from one collection to another. This accepts a collection name and transforms the reference into an object containing the collection name and the reference id.

This example defines references from a blog author to the authors collection and an array of related posts to the same blog collection:

src/content.config.ts

import { defineCollection, reference, z } from 'astro:content';
import { glob, file } from 'astro/loaders';

const blog = defineCollection({
  loader: glob({ pattern: '**/*.md', base: './src/data/blog' }),
  schema: z.object({
    // Reference a single author from the `authors` collection by `id`
    author: reference('authors'),
    // Reference an array of related posts from the `blog` collection by `slug`
    relatedPosts: z.array(reference('blog')),
  })
});

const authors = defineCollection({
  loader: file("src/data/authors.json"),
  schema: z.object({ /* ... */ })
});

export const collections = { blog, authors };

Validation of referenced entries happens at runtime when using getEntry() or getEntries():

src/pages/[posts].astro

// if a referenced entry is invalid, this will return undefined.
const relatedPosts = await getEntries(blogPost.data.relatedPosts);

Learn how to define and use collection references with guided explanations and usage examples.

getCollection()

Type: (collection: CollectionKey, filter?: (entry: CollectionEntry) => boolean) => CollectionEntry[]

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.0.0

A function that retrieves a list of content collection entries by collection name.

It returns all items in the collection by default, and accepts an optional filter function to narrow by entry properties. This allows you to query for only some items in a collection based on id or frontmatter values via the data object.

src/pages/blog/index.astro

---
import { getCollection } from 'astro:content';

// Get all `src/data/blog/` entries
const allBlogPosts = await getCollection('blog');

// Only return posts with `draft: true` in the frontmatter
const draftBlogPosts = await getCollection('blog', ({ data }) => {
  return data.draft === true;
});
---

Learn how to query build time collections with guided explanations and example usage.

getLiveCollection()

Type: (collection: string, filter?: LiveLoaderCollectionFilterType) => Promise<LiveDataCollectionResult>

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

A function that retrieves a list of live content collection entries by collection name.

It returns all items in the collection by default, and accepts an optional filter object whose shape is defined by the collection’s loader. This allows you to query for only some items in a collection or retrieve data in a different form, depending on your API’s capabilities.

src/pages/shop/index.astro

---
import { getLiveCollection } from 'astro:content';

// Get all `products` entries from your API
const allProducts = await getLiveCollection('products');

// Only return `products` that should be featured
const featuredProducts = await getLiveCollection('products', { featured: true });
---

Learn how to access live collections data with guided explanations and example usage.

getEntry()

Types:

• (collection: CollectionKey, id: string) => Promise<CollectionEntry | undefined>
• ({ collection: CollectionKey, id: string }) => Promise<CollectionEntry | undefined>

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.5.0

A function that retrieves a single collection entry by collection name and the entry id. getEntry() can also be used to get referenced entries to access the data or body properties:

src/pages/index.astro

---
import { getEntry } from 'astro:content';

// Get `src/content/blog/enterprise.md`
const enterprisePost = await getEntry('blog', 'enterprise');

// Get `src/content/captains/picard.json`
const picardProfile = await getEntry('captains', 'picard');

// Get the profile referenced by `data.captain`
const enterpriseCaptainProfile = await getEntry(enterprisePost.data.captain);
---

Learn more about querying build time collections with guided explanations and example usage.

getLiveEntry()

Type: (collection: string, filter: string | LiveLoaderEntryFilterType) => Promise<LiveDataEntryResult>

जोड़ा गया: astro@6.0.0 बीटा

A function that retrieves a single live collection entry by collection name and an optional filter, either as an id string or as a type-safe object.

src/pages/blog/[id].astro

---
import { getLiveEntry } from 'astro:content';

const liveCollectionsPost = await getLiveEntry('blog', Astro.params.id);
const mattDraft = await getLiveEntry('blog', {
  status: 'draft',
  author: 'matt',
});
---

Learn how to access live collections data with guided explanations and example usage.

getEntries()

Type: ({ collection: CollectionKey, id: string }[]) => CollectionEntry[]

जोड़ा गया: astro@2.5.0

A function that retrieves multiple collection entries from the same collection. This is useful for returning an array of referenced entries to access their associated data and body properties.

src/pages/blog/enterprise/index.astro

---
import { getEntries, getEntry } from 'astro:content';

const enterprisePost = await getEntry('blog', 'enterprise');

// Get related posts referenced by `data.relatedPosts`
const enterpriseRelatedPosts = await getEntries(enterprisePost.data.relatedPosts);
---

render()

Type: (entry: CollectionEntry) => Promise<RenderResult>

जोड़ा गया: astro@5.0.0

A function to compile a given entry for rendering. This returns the following properties:

• <Content /> - A component used to render the document’s contents in an Astro file.
• headings - A generated list of headings, mirroring Astro’s getHeadings() utility on Markdown and MDX imports.
• remarkPluginFrontmatter - The modified frontmatter object after any remark or rehype plugins have been applied. Set to type any.

src/pages/blog/entry-1.astro

---
import { getEntry, render } from 'astro:content';
const entry = await getEntry('blog', 'entry-1');

if (!entry) {
   // Handle Error, for example:
  throw new Error('Could not find blog post 1');
}
const { Content, headings, remarkPluginFrontmatter } = await render(entry);
---

Learn how to render the body content of entries with guided explanations and example usage.

astro:content types

import type {
  CollectionEntry,
  CollectionKey,
  SchemaContext,
 } from 'astro:content';

CollectionEntry

Query functions including getCollection(), getEntry(), and getEntries() each return entries with the CollectionEntry type. This type is available as a utility from astro:content:

import type { CollectionEntry } from 'astro:content';

A generic type to use with the name of the collection you’re querying to represent a single entry in that collection. For example, an entry in your blog collection would have the type CollectionEntry<'blog'>.

Each CollectionEntry is an object with the following values:

id

Type: string

A unique ID. Note that all IDs from Astro’s built-in glob() loader are slugified.

collection

Type: CollectionKey

The name of a collection in which entries are located. This is the name used to reference the collection in your schema and in querying functions.

data

Type: CollectionSchema<TCollectionName>

An object of frontmatter properties inferred from your collection schema (see defineCollection() reference). Defaults to any if no schema is configured.

body

Type: string

A string containing the raw, uncompiled body of the Markdown or MDX document.

rendered

Type: RenderedContent | undefined

The rendered content of an entry as stored by your loader. For example, this can be the rendered content of a Markdown entry, or HTML from a CMS.

filePath

Type: string | undefined

The path to an entry relative to your project directory. This value is only available for local entries.

CollectionKey

Example Type: 'blog' | 'authors' | ...

जोड़ा गया: astro@3.1.0

A string union of all collection names defined in your src/content.config.* file. This type can be useful when defining a generic function wrapping the built-in getCollection().

src/utils/collections.ts

import { type CollectionKey, getCollection } from 'astro:content';

export async function queryCollection(collection: CollectionKey) {
  return getCollection(collection, ({ data }) => {
    return data.draft !== true;
  });
}

SchemaContext

The context object that defineCollection uses for the function shape of schema. This type can be useful when building reusable schemas for multiple collections.

This includes the following property:

• image - The image() schema helper that allows you to use local images in Content Collections

src/content.config.ts

import { defineCollection, z, type SchemaContext } from "astro:content";
import { glob } from 'astro/loaders';

export const imageSchema = ({ image }: SchemaContext) =>
    z.object({
        image: image(),
        description: z.string().optional(),
    });

const blog = defineCollection({
  loader: glob({ pattern: '**/*.md', base: './src/data/blog' }),
  schema: ({ image }) => z.object({
    title: z.string(),
    permalink: z.string().optional(),
    image: imageSchema({ image })
  }),
});