Publication posts are the articles published by a specific user on their Hashnode blog.
In this guide, we'll discuss how to fetch the publication posts made by a specific Hashnode author by using their username.
Requirements
Hashnode username i.e "unclebigbay"
Few blogs on the publication
User Query
Make use of the "User query" to retrieve a user's publication posts using their username.
You can query the following data from the user publication posts query:
_id: ID!
followersCount: Int
author: User
cuid: String
slug: String
title: String
type: String!
popularity: Float
reactionsByCurrentUser: [Reaction]
totalReactions: Int
bookmarkedIn: [String]
partOfPublication: Boolean
contributors: [Contributor]
isActive: Boolean
replyCount: Int
responseCount: Int
dateAdded: String
tags: [Tag]
brief: String
coverImage: String!
isAnonymous: Boolean
dateUpdated: String
dateFeatured: String
reactions: [Reaction]
poll: Poll
contentMarkdown: String
numUniqueUsersWhoReacted: Int
The user publication posts is a "query" operation to fetch the user's articles, and it expects a username as an argument:
{
user(username: "unclebigbay") {
publication {
posts(page: 0) {
_id
cuid
coverImage
title
}
}
}
}
The query above will return the first page of your publication with six articles:
You can query for additional pages by passing an integer to the page parameter, which will return your additional articles i.e page: 1 will return the next six articles.
If the page parameter is greater than the total number of posts in your publication, an empty array will be returned as follows:
Resources
Check out the JavaScript query code here.