Content Delivery API > How to fetch records

Query a single record

For every model there is one query to fetch a specific record. For example if you want to get the hero_title field from the single-instance model called homepage, the following request can be used:

query {
  homepage {
    heroTitle
  }
}

The query response can be further controlled by supplying filter and orderBy arguments. For example, if the artist model has a name field, you can use this query to get a specific record:

query {
  artist(filter: { name: { eq: "Blank Banshee" } }) {
    name
    genre
  }
}

Please refer to the filtering section of this guide to understand how to use the filters and orderBy arguments.

Query multiple records

The API contains automatically generated queries to fetch records of a certain model. For example, for the artist model the top-level query allArtists will be generated. By default the query will return 20 records, you can change the limit by adding the first parameter. If the number of your records exceeds the maximum number of records we return, you will need to iterate. Read more in the pagination section.

A few examples for query names:

• Model API identifier: artist, query name: allArtists

• Model API identifier: track, query name: allTracks

• Model API identifier: use_case, query name: allUseCases

A query which fetches the first ten records from the artist model — together with the total number of artists — could look like the following:

query {
  allArtists(first: 10) {
    id
    name
  }
  _allArtistsMeta {
  count
  }
}

Note: The query name approximates the plural rules of the English language. If you are unsure about the actual query name, explore available queries in your API Explorer.

The query response of a query fetching multiple records can be further controlled by supplying different query arguments to order, filter and paginate results.