contentful-export

Contentful export tool

https://www.contentful.com is a content management platform for web applications, mobile apps and connected devices. It allows you to create, edit & manage content in the cloud and publish it anywhere via powerful API. Contentful offers tools for managing editorial teams and enabling cooperation between organizations.

This is a command line tool (CLI) that help you backup your published Content Model, Content and Assets or move them to a new Contentful space. It will support Editor Interfaces, Webhooks and Roles & Permissions in a future version.

To import your exported data, please refer to the contentful-import repository.

Installation

We recommend the installation of this CLI via npm:

npm install -g contentful-export

Usage and examples

Usage: contentful-export [options]

Options:
  --version           Show version number                              

  --space-id          ID of Space with source data           
                      [string] [required]

  --management-token  Management API token for the space to be exported.
                      [string] [required]

  --export-dir        Defines the path for storing the export json file
                      (default path is the current directory) [string]

  --max-allowed-limit How many item per page per request default 1000 [number]

  --include-drafts    Export Drafts entiries, a preview token needs to be provided when the value is true [boolean]

  --preview-token     Preview API token for the space to be exported. [string] 

  --download-assets   Download the assets along with the exported data [boolean]
 
  --rate-limit                    How many request per period of time, default 6 [number]
  
  --rate-limit-period             How much time to wait before retry in ms, default 1000 [number]     
  
  --config            Configuration file with required values

The --management-token parameter allows you to specify a token used for both spaces. If you request a token from here and your user account has access to both spaces, this should be enough.

Check the example-config.json file for an example of what a configuration file looks like. If you use the configuration file, you don't need to specify the other options for tokens and space ids.

Example

contentful-export \
  --space-id spaceID \
  --management-token managementToken

or

contentful-export --config example-config.json

You can create your own configuration file based on the example-config.json file.

Exported data

This is an overview of the exported data:

{
  "contentTypes": [],
  "entries": [],
  "locales": [],
  "assets": [],
  "webhooks": [],
  "editorInterfaces": [],
	"roles": []
}

Usage as a library

While this tool is intended for use as a command line tool, you can also use it as a Node library:

var spaceExport = require('contentful-export')

spaceExport(options)
.then((output) => {
  console.log('space data', output)
})
.catch((err) => {
  console.log('oh no! errors occurred!', err)
})

The options object can contain any of the CLI options, but written with a camelCase pattern instead, and no dashes. For example --space-id would become spaceId.

Another option is errorLogFile, the location of a file to log errors to.

Limitations

• This tool exports only your published Content Model, Content and Assets. It will support Editor Interfaces, Webhooks and Roles & Permissions in a future version. Draft entries are not supported.
• You can only export the content exported by this tool into an empty space. We currently do not support merging content into pre-existing spaces.
• If you have custom widgets, you need to reinstall them manually in the new space.

Changelog

Read the releases page for more information.

License

This project is licensed under MIT license