Contentful Most Frequently Asked Questions

[debpu06]

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There are many general questions that get asked over and over regarding Contentful. Since they keep getting asked, I figure the answers aren't the easiest to find online. This post is an effort to get those answers out there.

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[PavithraSridharan02]

Hi i want to move a specific content alone from one environment to another. Can you please tell me?

[debpu06]

@pav342 Hi i want to move a specific content alone from one environment to another. Can you please tell me?

Did you look into the Contentful CLI and import/export functionality? There is some good documentation here: https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/tutorials/cli/import-and-export/ It does include a --query-entries option which should allow you to only export specific instances of content. Then you can import it into the other environment. Would that be what you are looking for?

[PavithraSridharan02]

Yes i tried it. It takes all the content types and assets. I want a particular content from a specific content model and migrate the content alone with assest,etc to another environment

[debpu06]

@pav342 Yes i tried it. It takes all the content types and assets. I want a particular content from a specific content model and migrate the content alone with assest,etc to another environment

Hey @pav342,

That should be feasible. You have to look into that --query-entries option. If you write it out in JS it would look something like the following:

const contentfulExport = require('contentful-export')

const options = {
  spaceId: '<space_id>',
  managementToken: '<content_management_api_key>',
  queryEntries: [
    'content_type=<content_type_id>',
    'sys.id=<entry_id>'
  ]
}

contentfulExport(options)
...

Where in your query entries parameter you are passing the content_type_id, which filters by specific content type. And you can pass sys.id, which can allow you to filter on specific entries. You can also use the other flags like --content-only so that it only exports the entries and assets, not the content model.

Once that data is exported into a file, when you run an import with that specific file into a new environment, it will only move those entries. Here is some more documentation on the details of the queries: https://github.com/contentful/contentful-export#querying https://github.com/contentful/contentful-export#queryentries-array

And here is someone who had a similar question in Contentful forums:

https://www.contentfulcommunity.com/t/copy-content-entry-to-another-space/1166

[PavithraSridharan02]

First of all thank you for your help.

1. I have two environment “brandpage” and “aus”. Brandpage environment is empty and aus environment have 10+ content model. And it has five entries ( from 3 content types). And two assets. This is all I have.

2. I have already tried the code you have sent me. File name- contentmigrate.js.

3. In the code query entries I gave only one content type id “headline” and sys.id

4. Headline content type has only 3 entries.

5. When I run this code “contentful space export contentmigrate.js —content-only it takes all the 5 entries (from 3 content types) and it takes tags which I didn’t give.

I tried my very best and it still takes all the content type entries.