Tridion Connector for Contentful

The Tridion Connector for Contentful provides access to images, documents and other assets stored in Contentful. You can build SDL Tridion Sites websites using these assets and then share this content across the whole organization. You can also use the connector to consume Contentful textual content to use on your SDL Tridion Sites website.

Supported capabilities

The Connector for Contentful provides the following key capabilities:
  • List folders and files
  • View asset metadata, including asset size and content type
  • Download asset files
  • View textual content, either as an HTML fragment or a list of normalized fields
  • Publishing Contentful content from Content Manager

For more information on the two options for consuming content from Connector for Contentful (HTML fragment versus normalized fields), refer to the related topic.

Example use cases

These capabilities make it possible to implement the following use cases (among others):
  • Navigate Contentful assets and textual content from a single interface
  • Consume Contentful assets and textual content in Tridion Sites Component and Pages
  • List and get Contentful assets and textual content through the Content Delivery GraphQL interface to build content mashup experiences
  • Download Contentful assets through the Content Delivery GraphQL interface

Architecture

The following diagram gives a high-level architecture of the connector when used with Tridion Sites: