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How to grab image metadata from images inserted into Content blocks?

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Last updated: Sep 28, 2020
I’d really like to be able to grab image metadata from images inserted into Content blocks, but all I seem to be able to get back is a reference. How can I expand references contained inside portable text blocks?
Sep 28, 2020, 7:09 AM
Hi Andrew, have you tried something like this? If 
content
is your block content field:
*[_type == "post"]{
  ...,
  "content": content[] {
    ...select(
      _type == "image" => {
        ...,
        "asset": asset->
      } 
    )
  }
}
Sep 28, 2020, 8:24 AM
Hi Andrew, have you tried something like this? If 
content
is your block content field:
*[_type == "post"]{
  ...,
  "content": content[] {
    ...select(
      _type == "image" => {
        ...,
        "asset": asset->
      } 
    )
  }
}
Sep 28, 2020, 8:24 AM
You have awesome timing, I was just cobbling together something like this from what I could deconstruct from https://www.sanity.io/docs/presenting-block-text — but you helped me get the last piece in place
Sep 28, 2020, 8:31 AM
oddly enough, going off the examples, I ended up forming a query much like what you’ve got up there, except without the 
…select
, but the the same contents inside the parentheses. It doesn’t seem to make a difference whether I use the 
select
operator, I’m curious what that does here?
Sep 28, 2020, 8:32 AM
(also thank you! 🙏 )
Sep 28, 2020, 8:38 AM
Glad it’s working! If you’re not using 
select
, you might be using the short-hand notation instead. Check out the part where it says:
// Projections also have syntactic sugar for inline conditionals
https://www.sanity.io/docs/query-cheat-sheet#conditionals-64a36d80be73
Sep 28, 2020, 8:56 AM
Brilliant. Makes perfect sense.
Sep 28, 2020, 9:01 AM

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