Query media items

For components like the MediaGallerySection or the MediaList you need a selection of media items. There are three different ways how to create a selection.

• getEntry: Astro function to load a single item of an Astro content collection.
• getCollection: Astro function to filter items of an Astro content collection.
• getMediaItems: LightNet function to simplify filtering media items.

Here are examples for creating a selection of media items.

Create a selection by media item IDs

---
import { getEntry } from "astro:content"

const items = [
  await getEntry("media", "faithful-freestyle--en"),
  await getEntry("media", "ollie-with-integrity--en"),
]
---

This example creates a selection of two media items by their identifiers using Astro’s getEntry. Find more information on getEntry and getCollection on the Astro docs on content collections.

Create a selection using getMediaItems

---
import { getMediaItems } from "lightnet/content"

const items = await getMediaItems({
  where: { type: "book", language: "en" },
  orderBy: "dateCreated",
  limit: 10
})
---

The getMediaItems function helps to query media items. It takes a sql-like query object as an argument. The example filters for all media items that have the media-type book and the language en. It orders them by the date they were created (newest first) and limits the result to 10 items.

Tip

You can use Astro’s Astro.currentLocale to query media items matching the current site language.

Reference

The getMediaItems function accepts this parameters:

where

type: Object
example: { type: "book" }
required: false

Defines the attributes of the media items to be returned. Only media items with all matching attributes are returned.

where: type

type: string
example: "book"
required: false

Sets the media item type to be returned.

where: language

type: string
example: "en"
required: false

Sets the media item content language (as BCP-47 code) to be returned.

where: category

type: string
example: "family"
required: false

Sets the media item category to be returned.

where: collection

type: string
example: "my-collection"
required: false

Sets the media item collection to be returned.

orderBy

type: "dateCreated" | "title"
example: "dateCreated"
required: false

Sets the sort order of the returned media items:

• dateCreated - sorts based on the dateCreated attribute from newest to oldest.
• title - sorts based on the media item title
• none - sorts based on the media item identifier (as defined by the content JSON file name), the order of collection items is taking precedence.

limit

type: number
example: 42
required: false

Sets the maximum amount of media items to be returned.