Contentful CLI

> Contentful's command line interface tool. Use Contentful features straight from your CLI.

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.

🚀 Features

• Get started with Contentful with the init command.
• Manage spaces - list, create, delete,...
• Export your space to a JSON file.
• Import your space from a JSON file.
• Execute migration scripts written in the Contentful Migration DSL
• Generate migration scripts for the Contentful Migration DSL from existing spaces.
• Seed your space with example data.
• Manage installation of extensions in a space.
• Securely login and logout with our OAuth service.
• Find all available commands in the docs section.

☁️ Installation

Make sure you have Node LTS installed

Then using npm or yarn:

npm install -g contentful-cli
# Or
yarn global add contentful-cli

Please note that for the non standalone versions you need Node LTS to use the CLI.

✋ Usage

Use the --help parameter to display the help section for CLI tool or combined with a specific command to get the help section for that command.

contentful --help
# Or
contentful space --help

📚 Documentation

More detailed documentation for every command can be found in the docs section.

Using the CLI tool with a proxy

You can save the proxy configuration in your .contentfulrc.json via:

contentful config add --proxy user:auth@host:port

We also respect the http(s)_proxy environment variables:

https_proxy=user:auth@host:port contentful

When multiple proxy configurations exists, precedence is taken in this form:

1. http_proxy takes precedence over .contentfulrc.json
2. https_proxy takes precedence over .contentfulrc.json
3. https_proxy takes precedence over http_proxy

Configuring the CLI for EU usage

You can override the host configuration in your .contentfulrc.json via:

contentful config add --host api.eu.contentful.com

Then any subsequent command will use the EU host. E.g. contentful login will log you in to your EU Contentful instance.

⛑️ Troubleshooting

• Unable to connect to Contentful through your Proxy? Try settings rawProxy: true in your .contentfulrc.json via:

contentful config add --raw-proxy

🛠️ Development

1. Install dependencies

   npm i
   

2. To avoid development version colliding with your already installed Contentful CLI, change the command name in package.json

     "bin": {
   -     "contentful": "bin/contentful.js"
   +     "ctfl": "bin/contentful.js"
     }
   

3. Link your local version, and happy hacking 🎉

   npm link
   

🤖 Testing

Integration tests

To run integration tests locally, you'll need the following:

1. Set environment variables in .jest/env.js (can be found in 1Password)

   process.env.CONTENTFUL_INTEGRATION_TEST_CMA_TOKEN = ''
   process.env.CLI_E2E_ORG_ID = ''
   

2. Run talkback proxy to record and playback http requests

   npm run talkback-proxy
   

3. In another terminal shell run your preferred tests

   ## Run all integration tests
   npm run test:jest
   ## Or run specific tests
   npx jest test/integration/cmds/space/* --watch
   

Unit tests

Simply run:

# Run all unit tests
npm run test:unit:watch
# Or run specific tests
npx jest test/unit/cmds/* --watch

See jest documentation for more details about running tests and optional flags.

Updating Snapshots

You might need to update snapshots and it's challenging with the recordings.

Tip: run tests without recordings to update the snapshots.

npx jest test/integration/cmds/