Contentful provides a content infrastructure for digital teams to power content in websites, apps, and devices. Unlike a CMS, Contentful was built to integrate with the modern software stack. It offers a central hub for structured content, powerful management and delivery APIs, and a customizable web app that enable developers and content creators to ship digital products faster.

This is a library that help you backup your Content Model, Content and Assets or move them to a new Contentful space. It will support Roles & Permissions in a future version.

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

We moved the CLI version of this tool into our Contentful CLI. This allows our users to use and install only one single CLI tool to get the full Contentful experience.

Please have a look at the Contentful CLI export command documentation to learn more about how to use this as command line tool.

• Node LTS

npm install contentful-export

const contentfulExport = require('contentful-export')

const options = {
  spaceId: '<space_id>',
  managementToken: '<content_management_api_key>',
  ...
}

contentfulExport(options)
  .then((result) => {
    console.log('Your space data:', result)
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log('Oh no! Some errors occurred!', err)
  })

To scope your export, you are able to pass query parameters. All search parameters of our API are supported as documented in our API documentation.

const contentfulExport = require('contentful-export')

const options = {
  spaceId: '<space_id>',
  managementToken: '<content_management_api_key>',
  queryEntries: 'content_type=<content_type_id>'
}

contentfulExport(options)
...

The Export tool also support multiple inline queries.

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)
...

queryAssets uses the same syntax as queryEntries

const contentfulExport = require('contentful-export')

const options = {
  spaceId: '<space_id>',
  managementToken: '<content_management_api_key>',
  environmentId: '<environment_id>'
}

contentfulExport(options)
...

ID of the space with source data

ID of the environment in the source space

Contentful management API token for the space to be exported

Contentful Content Delivery API (CDA) token for the space to be exported.

Providing deliveryToken will export both entries and assets from the Contentful Delivery API, instead of the Contentful Management API. This may be useful if you want to export the latest published versions, as the management API always only exports the entirety of items, with the latest unpublished content. So if you want to make sure only to see the latest published changes, provide the deliveryToken.

Just to clarify: When Contentful Management API always returns the latest version (e.g. 50 in this case):

  "createdAt": "2020-01-06T12:00:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2020-04-07T11:00:00.000Z",
  "publishedVersion": 23,
  "publishedAt": "2020-04-05T14:00:00.000Z",
  "publishedCounter": 1,
  "version": 50,

the Content Delivery API would return the publishedVersion (23). CDA responses don't include version number.

Note: Tags are only available on the Contentful Management API, so they will not be exported if you provide a Contenful Delivery Token. Tags is a new feature that not all users have access to.

Defines the path for storing the export JSON file

Save the export as a JSON file

The filename for the exported data

Include drafts in the exported entries.

The deliveryToken option is ignored when includeDrafts has been set as true. If you want to include drafts, there's no point of getting them through the Content Delivery API.

Include archived entries in the exported entries

Skip exporting content models

Skip exporting editor interfaces

Skip exporting assets and entries.

Skip exporting roles and permissions

Skip exporting webhooks

Only export entries and assets

Only export entries that match these queries

Only export assets that match these queries

Download actual asset files

The Management API host

Proxy configuration in HTTP auth format: host:port or user:password@host:port

Pass proxy config to Axios instead of creating a custom httpsAgent

The number of items per page per request

The total number of items to return. Can be used with entries or assets. If not provided, then all entries or assets will be returned. The entries or assets will be ordered using: sys.createdAt,sys.id.

Full path to the error log file

Display progress in new lines instead of displaying a busy spinner and the status in the same line. Useful for CI.

• Unable to connect to Contentful through your proxy? Try to set the rawProxy option to true.

contentfulExport({
  proxy: 'https://cat:[email protected]:1234',
  rawProxy: true,
  ...
})

This is an overview of the exported data:

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

Note: Tags feature is not available for all users. If you do not have access to this feature, the tags array will always be empty.

• This tool currently does not support the export of space memberships.
• Exported webhooks with credentials will be exported as normal webhooks. Credentials should be added manually afterwards.
• If you have custom UI extensions, you need to reinstall them manually in the new space.

Read the releases page for more information.

This project is licensed under MIT license