Retrieve metadata such as alt text

[ericmasiello]

Is it possible through the existing plugin to retrieve alt text specified in Cloudinary? Using GraphiQL, I did not see anything that resembled this data.

Thanks in advance!

[Chuloo]

hi @ericmasiello you can do this by adding a context: true option in the gatsby-config options. Once this is done, any custom metadata or context data you add to the image on Cloudinary will be available in the context data field. Using the GraphiQL explorer, this is a sample query for all images:

query CloudinaryImage {
  allCloudinaryMedia {
    edges {
      node {
        context {
          custom {
            alt
          }
        }
        secure_url
        url
        public_id
      }
    }
  }
}

the node field with a context will return data like this, while other fields without context will return null for the context data:

{
          "node": {
            "context": {
              "custom": {
                "alt": "man-on-street"
              }
            },
            "secure_url": "https://res.cloudinary.com/chuloo/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto/v1580395766/gatsby-source-cloudinary/12.jpg",
            "url": "http://res.cloudinary.com/chuloo/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto/v1580395766/gatsby-source-cloudinary/12.jpg",
            "public_id": "gatsby-source-cloudinary/12"
          }
        }

[ericmasiello]

Thanks. I saw you updated the docs. 👍