Numerous API's Calls

[dancat93]

Hi everyone! When I run Jekyll application, initially I see that the plugin fetch the content inside each collections declared inside file _config.yml. So I see this in my terminal:

Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/articles?_locale=it&_limit=10000 Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/articles?_locale=en&_limit=10000 Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/business-areas?_locale=it&_limit=10000 Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/business-areas?_locale=en&_limit=10000 Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/categories?_locale=en&_limit=10000 Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from xxx/categories?_locale=en&_limit=10000

Where xxx is the name of my API endpoint. And so far everything is ok. After that, I see a message like “Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts” and the terminal start with a numerous API’s calls, about 20/30 for each collections.

This process really slow down the run of the application. And now, every run take about 60-70 sec and it’s too slow if we compared it with a simple Jekyll project that take about 4-5 sec.

There’s a way to speed up the run of application or to fix this numerous API’s calls?

[jbottigliero]

Hello from 2022! Answering because we had similar issues... and posterity.

It seemsjekyll-strapi in it's current state will dispatch a request to your Strapi instance ("Jekyll Strapi: Fetching entries from...") for each reference to strapi.collections.* in your template(s). This can cause an exponential amount of requests being dispatched based on your usage.

We're using the following workaround (with Strapi@4, but should work for Strapi@3 as well):

• Only use jekyll-strapi to request content-types that you need pages generated for.
• Avoid the use of strapi.collections.* in templates. Use something like jekyll-get-json to request your data for use in templates. You'll wind up making 2 requests to the same content-type at most.

Example Configuration

# @see https://github.com/brockfanning/jekyll-get-json
jekyll_get_json:
 - data: articles
    json: http://localhost:1337/api/articles?_limit=10000

strapi:
  endpoint: http://localhost:1337/api
  collections:
    articles:
      type: articles
      permalink: articles/:slug
      layout: article.html
      output: true

With this configuration, strapi.collections.articles === site.data.articles, using site.data.articles in templates will avoid multiple request overhead. It's a bit more configuration, and I'm sure a patch to this plugin would be an improvement... but "it works" – 😅!

[bluszcz]

Is this for Strapi 3?