contentful

Contentful data plugin

A Netlify build plugin to fetch content from a Contentful space and save it as JSON files in the ready for an SSG to use to generate an example restaurant site.

Usage for Development and Deployment

This plugin is to be used as a local plugin and not added to the official Netlify Plugin register. Installing this package for use in your site via NPM will make all of the data fetching plugins available:

npm install -s @netlify/demo-restaurant-sites-data`

Then to use this plugin, which fetches data from Contentful, specify in your site's netlify.toml:

[[plugins]]
  package = "./node_modules/@netlify/demo-restaurant-sites-data/plugins/contentful"

  [plugins.inputs]
    # Directory for the generated JSON data files to reside in
    dataDir = "data"

If you've configured your SSG to use a specific folder to use for data, replace the value of the dataDir option with the name of the folder you're using. If it does not yet exist, this directory will be created automatically so the JSON file can be copied inside it.

add the Contentful creds to your project as environment variable

You can use the Netlify CLI for this

# Create or link your project with Netlify
netlify create
# or
netlify link

# Add the Contentful Space ID
netlify env:set CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID XXX

# Add the Contentful Content Delivery API access token
netlify env:set CONTENTFUL_CONTENT_API_TOKEN XXX

# Run Netlify Build to prime your build cache with the data 
# This will use your centrally managed env vars
netlify build

# You now have data to build against
netlify dev