Big News: Socket raises $60M Series C at a $1B valuation to secure software supply chains for AI-driven development.Announcement
Sign In

@payloadcms/sdk

Package Overview
Dependencies
Maintainers
10
Versions
428
Alerts
File Explorer

Advanced tools

Socket logo

Install Socket

Detect and block malicious and high-risk dependencies

Install

@payloadcms/sdk

The official Payload REST API SDK

latest
Source
npmnpm
Version
3.85.1
Version published
Weekly downloads
14K
-21.06%
Maintainers
10
Weekly downloads
 
Created
Source

Payload SDK

Package to allow querying Payload REST API in a fully type safe way. Has support for all necessary operations, including auth, type safe select, populate, joins properties and simplified file uploading. Its interface is very similar to the Local API.

import { PayloadSDK } from '@payloadcms/sdk'
import type { Config } from './payload-types'

// Pass your config from generated types as generic
const sdk = new PayloadSDK<Config>({
  baseURL: 'https://example.com/api',
})

// Find operation
const posts = await sdk.find({
  collection: 'posts',
  draft: true,
  limit: 10,
  locale: 'en',
  page: 1,
  where: { _status: { equals: 'published' } },
})

// Find by ID operation
const posts = await sdk.findByID({
  id,
  collection: 'posts',
  draft: true,
  locale: 'en',
})

// Auth login operation
const result = await sdk.login({
  collection: 'users',
  data: {
    email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
    password: '12345',
  },
})

// Create operation
const result = await sdk.create({
  collection: 'posts',
  data: { text: 'text' },
})

// Create operation with a file
// `file` can be either a Blob | File object or a string URL
const result = await sdk.create({ collection: 'media', file, data: {} })

// Count operation
const result = await sdk.count({ collection: 'posts', where: { id: { equals: post.id } } })

// Update (by ID) operation
const result = await sdk.update({
  collection: 'posts',
  id: post.id,
  data: {
    text: 'updated-text',
  },
})

// Update (bulk) operation
const result = await sdk.update({
  collection: 'posts',
  where: {
    id: {
      equals: post.id,
    },
  },
  data: { text: 'updated-text-bulk' },
})

// Delete (by ID) operation
const result = await sdk.delete({ id: post.id, collection: 'posts' })

// Delete (bulk) operation
const result = await sdk.delete({ where: { id: { equals: post.id } }, collection: 'posts' })

// Find Global operation
const result = await sdk.findGlobal({ slug: 'global' })

// Update Global operation
const result = await sdk.updateGlobal({ slug: 'global', data: { text: 'some-updated-global' } })

// Auth Login operation
const result = await sdk.login({
  collection: 'users',
  data: { email: 'dev@payloadcms.com', password: '123456' },
})

// Auth Me operation
const result = await sdk.me(
  { collection: 'users' },
  {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `JWT  ${user.token}`,
    },
  },
)

// Auth Refresh Token operation
const result = await sdk.refreshToken(
  { collection: 'users' },
  { headers: { Authorization: `JWT ${user.token}` } },
)

// Auth Forgot Password operation
const result = await sdk.forgotPassword({
  collection: 'users',
  data: { email: user.email },
})

// Auth Reset Password operation
const result = await sdk.resetPassword({
  collection: 'users',
  data: { password: '1234567', token: resetPasswordToken },
})

// Find Versions operation
const result = await sdk.findVersions({
  collection: 'posts',
  where: { parent: { equals: post.id } },
})

// Find Version by ID operation
const result = await sdk.findVersionByID({ collection: 'posts', id: version.id })

// Restore Version operation
const result = await sdk.restoreVersion({
  collection: 'posts',
  id,
})

// Find Global Versions operation
const result = await sdk.findGlobalVersions({
  slug: 'global',
})

// Find Global Version by ID operation
const result = await sdk.findGlobalVersionByID({ id: version.id, slug: 'global' })

// Restore Global Version operation
const result = await sdk.restoreGlobalVersion({
  slug: 'global',
  id,
})

Every operation has optional 3rd parameter which is used to add additional data to the RequestInit object (like headers):

await sdk.me(
  {
    collection: 'users',
  },
  {
    // RequestInit object
    headers: {
      Authorization: `JWT ${token}`,
    },
  },
)

To query custom endpoints, you can use the request method, which is used internally for all other methods:

await sdk.request({
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/send-data',
  json: {
    id: 1,
  },
})

Custom fetch implementation and baseInit for shared RequestInit properties:

const sdk = new PayloadSDK<Config>({
  baseInit: { credentials: 'include' },
  baseURL: 'https://example.com/api',
  fetch: async (url, init) => {
    console.log('before req')
    const response = await fetch(url, init)
    console.log('after req')
    return response
  },
})

FAQs

Package last updated on 09 Jun 2026

Did you know?

Socket

Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.

Install

Related posts