Updating images via the api

Technical Questions
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I am writing some migration scripts to migrate a website from another CMS to builder. As such I have to migrate images. I know how to create images in builder via the API but I am always inserting new images and am ending up having multiple instance of the same image in the asset library. Is there a way to lookup if an image exists (e.g. by filename) and update it if it exists rather than always create a new version of the image (e.g. an upsert)?

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Hi John,

There is currently no API endpoint that will return the files you have in the asset library. You could alternatively track your images with a custom content model.

  1. Create a media-assets model in Builder.io
  2. Define Fields such as filename, url, uploadDate, etc

Then, you can query this model using builder.getAll and track your assets through it.