Connect to the 3rd-party api's, then add selected items to your configured collection.
I had originally planned on using Clearbit for the demo (look up a person using their email, then create a new contact using the api response), but I decided to go with TVMaze because it doesn't require having an api key. Feel free to fork the code and adapt it to your needs.
Being that this is my first Directus extension, I'd love to get feedback on whether there is anything that could be improved, doesn't work or is just plain wrong.
- Speed up the process of adding items from external sources.
- No, I intentionally only used what is natively available.
- One endpoint and one panel.
- Things I'd improve if I had more time:
- I would extend it support more data sources (contacts, books, plants, cars, music, etc).
- Support more data sources (contacts, books, plants, cars, music, etc).
- Multi-select on the results enabling you to to add multiple items at once.
- Implement a more robust autocomplete.
- Add more views, filters and responsive.
- Automatically create the collection with the necessary fields.
- Refine the code, debounce the input, more checks, etc.
- Refine the permissions implementation.
- Make it work with any api.
The endpoint uses the TVMaze api, which doesn't require any token to api key.
- Copy the contents of dist to /[your-directus-root]/extensions/directus-extension-bundle-api-fetch/
- Whitelist the TVMaze domain to allow the show cover image in the selected item preview:
CONTENT_SECURITY_POLICY_DIRECTIVES__IMG_SRC: "'self' data: blob: https://static.tvmaze.com" - Restart Directus.
- Create a new collection to store your saved videos. To match the api response the collection should have the following fields:
- name: string
- date_created: datetime | timestamp
- slug: string | slugify
- network: string
- country: string
- runtime: integer
- genre: csv | tags
- image: string
- thumb: string
- Add a new panel and select the API Lookup panel from the list of available panels.
- Select a collection you would like to save to.
- Select the name column from the Response configuration field.
- Once the panel is added to your dashboard, simply search for items in the TVMaze database, select an item from the results then click save to Directus.
