Returning Unformatted Data (or Label) from Structured Metadata

kerns
kerns Member Posts: 3 ✭
in Developer APIs

I am trying to add two custom structured meta data fields – city and country – to photos in my folder. When I fetch that data I get the ID's (e.g. Usa instead of USA, Puerto_montt instead of Puerto Montt). Is there a way to fetch the labels without trying to transform or map these locally?

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  • kerns
    kerns Member Posts: 3 ✭

    correction: I am of course getting "usa" and "puerto_montt"…it was css that was uppercasing them. Still – the question stands :)

  • kerns
    kerns Member Posts: 3 ✭
    edited September 4

    update: I should also add these are "Single-selection list" items… which seems preferable to a text field for controlling spelling, etc… but maybe doesn't provide the option for just pulling the label?

  • Cloudinary Team
    Cloudinary Team Administrator, Cloudinary Staff Posts: 170 admin

    Hi there,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    You can use the metadata_field_by_field_id method, as mentioned here:
    https://cloudinary.com/documentation/metadata_api#get_a_metadata_field_by_external_id

    For example:

    cloudinary.v2.api.metadata_field_by_field_id('city').then(function(error,result){console.log(util.inspect(error,false,null,true));});

    This will return a list of data source values. Can you give that a try and let me know how it goes? If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

    Kind regards,

    Tia
    Developer Support Engineer
    Cloudinary

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