Albums

Endpoint Overview

Endpoint Name: Albums
Purpose: Retrieves the list of published albums for a specific culture. Possible filtering.
Method: GET
URL: /{version}/content/{culture}/albums

Authentication

Authentication Type: None

Request

Headers

Header Name	Required	Description
accept	Yes	`application/json`

Path Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
version	string	The version of the API to be used. Allowed values: `v2`.
culture	string	The culture's identifier. E.g., `en-us`.

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
tags.slug	string	No	The language-specific slug of the tag to use as a filter. This parameter can be specified more than once.
tags.neutralSlug	string	No	The language-independent slug of the tag to use as a filter. This parameter can be specified more than once.
tags.externalSourceReference	string	No	The externalSourceReference object of the tag to filter for, defined as sourceName:sourceId. See Advanced filtering for more info.
content.slug	string	No	The language-specific slug of the tag assigned as the context to use as a filter.
context.neutralSlug	string	No	The language-independent slug of the tag assigned as the context to use as a filter.
featured	integer	No	Specify the value 1 to get only promoted (featured) content; 0 to get only NOT promoted items.
_id	slug	No	The language-specific identifier (slug) of the content to search for.
_listAvailability	string	No	Get content with the specified availability option. Possible values : 0 (Public) or 1 (Unlisted). Default: when NOT specified, only Public content (0) will be returned.
$skip	integer	No	The number of entities to be skipped. Default: 0
$limit	integer	No	The maximum number of entities to be returned (up to 100). Default : 25.
$sort	string	No	The field to be used as the sort condition with the desired direction. The sort field can be: `lastUpdatedDate`, `context.slug`, `tags.slug`, `context.neutralSlug`, `tags.neutralSlug`, `tags.externalSourceReference`. Only one field can be specified per request. Default : when NOT specified content will be ordered by featured and contentDate descending.

Response

Response Codes

HTTP Status Code	Meaning
200	Successful request
404	Not Found (resource does not exist)
500	Internal Server Error

Response Body

Data structure

meta: Contains general information related to the request performed (Object)
- apiVersion: The current version of the API endpoint that generated the response (String)
- generatedAt: The UTC timestamp of the response (String)
pagination: Contains information about the pagination of the current response (Object)
- nextUrl: The URL that can be used to retrieve the next page of results (String)
- previousUrl: The URL that can be used to retrieve the previous page of results. This is only available when consuming a page next to the first one (String)
- maxItems: The maximum number of items that can be retrieved per page (100) (Integer)
items: An array of albums objects (Array)
- type: album (String)
- selfUrl: The URL to get the detail of this entity (String)
- slug: The unique identifier of the album (String)
- title: The album title (String)
- contentDate: The UTC timestamp of this content (Date-time)
- createdBy: The full name of the author that created this entity (String)
- lastUpdatedBy: The full name of the last author that updated this entity (String)
- lastUpdatedDate: UTC timestamp of the last update operation occurred on this entity (Date-time)
- featured: When 1, it represents a promoted content (Integer)
- thumbnail: An object representing the thumbnail of the picture bound to the current album (Object)
  - title: The title of the photo (String)
  - templateUrl: The template URL that can be used to retrieve the photo file from Cloudinary (String). Contains {formatName} or {formatInstructions} placeholders. (String)
  - thumbnailUrl: The URL of the thumbnail format that can be used to retrieve the photo from Cloudinary (String)
  - format: The format of the original image (e.g., jpg, png, etc.) (String)
  - overriddenFormats: An object representing details related to the custom cropping coordinates set for this photo, if present. Available only when the system is configured with the cropping option (Object)
  - slug: The language-specific unique identifier of the photo entity used as the thumbnail (String)
  - selfUrl: The URL to get the detail of this entity (String)
- tags: An array of objects containing the set of tags related to this album (Array)
  - type: tag (String)
  - selfUrl: The URL to get the detail of the tag entity (String)
  - slug: The language-specific unique identifier of the tag bound to the album (String)
  - neutralSlug: The language-independent unique identifier of the tag bound to the album (String)
  - externalSourceName: The name of the external source from where the tag was selected. If null, the tag is of type free-text (String)
  - title: The title of the tag in the current language (String)
  - extraData: An object containing custom-defined data, bound to the current tag (Object)
  - fields: An object representing the available custom fields for the tag (Object)
- context: An object containing the information related to the tag used as the context (same contract as tag) (Object)
- fields: An object representing the available custom fields for this album (Object)
- _entityId: The language-independent unique identifier of the entity (Entity Code) (Guid)
- _translationId: The language-specific unique identifier of the entity (Localized Entity Code) (Guid)

Successful Response Example

Request GET https://acme.org/v2/content/en-us/albums

Response

▼ "root": {
▼ "pagination": {
"nextUrl": "https://forge-dapi.com/v2/content/en-gb/albums?$skip=25&$limit=25"
"maxItems": 100
}
▼ "meta": {
"apiVersion": "2.0"
"generatedAt": "2025-03-17T15:39:04.3915682Z"
}
▼ "items": [
▼ "0": {
"type": "album"
"_translationId": "20b2aeaf-197a-4d94-94f2-954bbcf2df11"
"_entityId": "8df2569f-5a61-4075-a0d3-6e1fc2694e58"
"selfUrl": "https://forge-dapi.com/v2/content/en-gb/albums/alpha-album"
"slug": "alpha-album"
"title": "Alpha Album"
▼ "tags": [
]
▼ "fields": {
▼ "polymer": {
"url": ""
"accessibleText": ""
"displayText": ""
"openInNewTab": false
}
"lit": "PT3H"
}
"createdBy": "Henry TheProducer"
"lastUpdatedBy": "Henry TheProducer"
"lastUpdatedDate": "2024-12-09T15:54:37.768Z"
"contentDate": "2024-12-09T15:36:56.949Z"
"featured": 0
▼ "thumbnail": {
"title": "IMG_20140731_095513"
"templateUrl": "https://image.com/forgephotos/image/private/{formatInstructions}/v1733759797/forgego-sandbox/wflss8lg9rbkevh13rhg"
"thumbnailUrl": "https://image.com/forgephotos/image/private/w_250,h_250,c_thumb,g_auto,q_auto,f_jpg/v1733759797/forgego-sandbox/wflss8lg9rbkevh13rhg"
"format": "jpg"
▼ "overriddenFormats": {
}
"slug": "img-20140731-095513-x1253"
"selfUrl": "https://forge-dapi.com/v2/content/en-gb/photos/img-20140731-095513-x1253"
}
"description": ""
}
▼ "1": {
"type": "album"
"_translationId": "20b2aeaf-197a-4d94-94f2-954bbcf2df12"
"_entityId": "8df2569f-5a61-4075-a0d3-6e1fc2694e59"
"selfUrl": "https://forge-dapi.com/v2/content/en-gb/albums/alpha-album-2025"
"slug": "alpha-album-2025"
"title": "Alpha Album 2025"
▼ "tags": [
]
▼ "fields": {
▼ "polymer": {
"url": ""
"accessibleText": ""
"displayText": ""
"openInNewTab": false
}
"lit": "PT3H"
}
"createdBy": "Henry TheProducer"
"lastUpdatedBy": "Henry TheProducer"
"lastUpdatedDate": "2024-12-09T15:54:37.768Z"
"contentDate": "2024-12-09T15:36:56.949Z"
"featured": 0
▼ "thumbnail": {
"title": "IMG_20140731_095516"
"templateUrl": "https://image.com/forgephotos/image/private/{formatInstructions}/v1733759798/forgego-sandbox/wflss8lg9rbkevh13rhg"
"thumbnailUrl": "https://image.com/forgephotos/image/private/w_250,h_250,c_thumb,g_auto,q_auto,f_jpg/v1733759797/forgego-sandbox/wflss8lg9rbkevh13rhg"
"format": "jpg"
▼ "overriddenFormats": {
}
"slug": "img-20140732-095513-x1253"
"selfUrl": "https://forge-dapi.com/v2/content/en-gb/photos/img-20140732-095513-x1253"
}
"description": ""
}
]
}

Error Response Example

{
  "type": "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc9110#section-15.5.5",
  "title": "Not Found",
  "status": 404,
  "traceId": "00-bdd418da1652593248958acf2dfad4e0-6d55da45f17bddf1-00"
}

Common Errors and Troubleshooting

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