Fetching external data

In this example we will see how to daily fetch Docker pull count to store the result in your database.

First, we need to create a Content Type, in this example we will call it hit with a date and count attribute.

Your Content Type should look like this:

Now we will create a function that will be usable everywhere in your strapi application.

Path — ./config/functions/docker.js

data contains all the data received from the Docker Hub API. What we want here is to add the pull_count value in your database.

Path — ./config/functions/docker.js

With this code, everytime this function is called it will fetch the docker repo’s data and insert the current pull_count with the corresponding date in your Strapi database.

Here is how to call the function in your application strapi.config.functions.docker()

Path —