Issue with Rest and Populate on a Media Field in Strapi

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I have a media field in Strapi that contains seven images, but I only want to retrieve the first two images using Rest and Populate. Currently, I’m able to retrieve all seven images in an array, but I only need the first two.

Here’s an example of my current query using qs.stringify:

const PopulaireDataQuery = qs.stringify(
  {
    populate: {
      Images: {
        fields: ['url', 'formats'],
      },
    },
  },
  {
    encodeValuesOnly: true,
  }
);

Can anyone suggest how I can modify this query to retrieve only the first two images using Rest and Populate?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

2

You can use filters to only get the 2 you need

3

@purple_pillow did you found a solution to your issue? I don’t see how @Boegie19 is solving it.

Given I have an article API, with a “cover” media file, and I only want to populate the large format. How can it be done?

This doesn’t seem to work (I get all formats):

{
  populate: {
    cover: {
     populate : {
     formats:{
        populate: {
          large: true
        }
      }
     } 
    }
  }
}