Art Institute of Chicago Migration

Many of my customers at Contentful were migrating from an existing CMS, and as such often needed to migrate tons of content over. Although Contentful's Management API makes it relatively straightforward to programmatically create content, the way in which you should scaffold your project is not immediately clear.

This proof of concept uses the Art Institute of Chicago's artwork API to bridge the gap by showing how you could theoretically scaffold a project, while also providing examples for how to deal with some hidden Contentful gotchas (i.e. API rate limits). Overall, this was a super fun project to work on, as it let me flex some of my backend chops while also providing some real value for my customers 💪