In your app
A controller answers a route on your app: it callsreplacePhotoFeed() and returns the answer.
Add the controller
app/Http/Controllers/ReplacePhotoFeedController.php
Add the route
routes/web.php
auth lets only your signed-in users reach it.Call it
Your own page’s form or script sends
PUT /photo-feed/clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6 (a form adds @csrf, as every web route checks it, and @method('PUT')), and gets back its answer as JSON. Test it, below, calls it.Call it from the terminal
Terminal
replacePhotoFeed() on your default site and prints its answer as JSON. It writes, so it asks first: add --force to skip the question in a script. See Call any method from the terminal for every argument type.
PATCH changes only the fields sent. Update an existing photo feed.
Find the id
id is the document’s _id, from a list. Ask the list for only the fields you need: each row is a document’s id and those fields.
Laravel
Terminal
$row['id'] as id. See Find an id.
Required parameters
Required parameters
Named arguments, e.g.
replacePhotoFeed(id: …); leave out the optional ones.Required. The document’s
_id: a full id names its own locale and mode (the draft’s …:en:draft, the published one’s …:en:published; no aposMode needed), a bare aposDocId takes the request’s (aposLocale, aposMode).Required. Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.
Optional parameters
Optional parameters
Optional. Leave it out (or pass
null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Which external photo store to draw from. Connections (bucket, region, keys) are set up once in Connections → Photo storage.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"". Optional. The folder inside the bucket the dated folders live under — leave empty when they sit at the top level (e.g. “2026/May/31/…”).Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"ymd". How deep the dated folders go. The month and day folder NAMES don’t matter — “May”, “05” and “5” are all understood — only the depth. One of ymd, ym, y, flat.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"". The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept). Left out, it’s made from the title.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"recentDays". Which dates this feed is allowed to pull from. Only the folders inside this window are ever listed, so a huge library stays cheap to sample. One of recentDays, thisYear, lastYears, range, all.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
5. Counting today. 5 means today and the four days before it. 1 to 365.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
2. Counting this one. 2 means this calendar year and last. 1 to 25.Optional. Leave it out (or pass
null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. From. Format: an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD).Optional. Leave it out (or pass
null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. To. Format: an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD).Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"total". Spread samples one target count across as many different days as possible (best for a wide window). Every day takes the same number from each day in the window (best for a daily-update wall). One of total, perDay.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
30. How many photos this feed shows. Each refresh replaces the whole set. 1 to 500.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
10. Taken from every day in the window — 10 from each of the last 5 days is 50 photos. 1 to 200.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
true. Remember which photos were used and prefer ones that haven’t been shown lately, so a big library keeps producing new sets. When a date window runs out of unseen photos it reuses the oldest ones rather than showing fewer.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
2000. The size of that memory. Bigger means longer before a photo can repeat; 0 turns the memory off. 0 to 20000.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"webp". Every photo is re-encoded on the way in — which also strips camera metadata (location, device) from what the site serves. One of webp, jpeg.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
2000. Photos larger than this are scaled down. 2000 is plenty for a full-screen lightbox; the gallery tiles use much smaller generated sizes. 320 to 6000.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
82. Encoder quality, 40–100. 82 is a good balance; above 90 grows files fast with little visible gain.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"original". Keep each photo’s own proportions (best for the Mosaic and Masonry layouts), or crop everything to one shape for a perfectly uniform wall. Crops are centered on the busiest part of the photo. One of original, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 4:5.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"". Optional. Describes what these photos generally show, for screen readers and the lightbox caption. Applied to each photo as it is imported — leave empty to import them without alt text.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
false. Master switch. When off, the feed keeps showing its current photos and only refreshes when you run it by hand.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"6". How often to fetch a fresh set. Change it anytime — no restart. One of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 24, 48.Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
30. After a refresh the old photos stop being shown immediately, but their files are kept this long before being deleted — a safety margin for pages already sent to a browser and for CDN caches. 0 deletes them right away. 0 to 10080.Returns
Returns
A
PhotoFeed (Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Data\PhotoFeed). PhotoFeed content type. Read its properties ($photoFeed->title): each says whether the site always sends it. The example answer is the site’s wire JSON: one key differs from the property names (_id → id).Always sent. Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.
Always sent. The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept).
Always sent. Select whether this content is public or private. One of
public, loginRequired; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Always sent. The document’s id. On a type with drafts it ends in its locale and mode (
…:en:published, …:en:draft): the part before the first colon is its aposDocId, shared by both copies. The {_id} the type’s routes take.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Which external photo store to draw from. Connections (bucket, region, keys) are set up once in Connections → Photo storage.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Optional. The folder inside the bucket the dated folders live under — leave empty when they sit at the top level (e.g. “2026/May/31/…”).Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. How deep the dated folders go. The month and day folder NAMES don’t matter — “May”, “05” and “5” are all understood — only the depth. One of ymd, ym, y, flat; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Which dates this feed is allowed to pull from. Only the folders inside this window are ever listed, so a huge library stays cheap to sample. One of recentDays, thisYear, lastYears, range, all; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Counting today. 5 means today and the four days before it. 1 to 365.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Counting this one. 2 means this calendar year and last. 1 to 25.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. From. Format: an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD).Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. To. Format: an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD).Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Spread samples one target count across as many different days as possible (best for a wide window). Every day takes the same number from each day in the window (best for a daily-update wall). One of total, perDay; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. How many photos this feed shows. Each refresh replaces the whole set. 1 to 500.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Taken from every day in the window — 10 from each of the last 5 days is 50 photos. 1 to 200.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Remember which photos were used and prefer ones that haven’t been shown lately, so a big library keeps producing new sets. When a date window runs out of unseen photos it reuses the oldest ones rather than showing fewer.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. The size of that memory. Bigger means longer before a photo can repeat; 0 turns the memory off. 0 to 20000.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Every photo is re-encoded on the way in — which also strips camera metadata (location, device) from what the site serves. One of webp, jpeg; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Photos larger than this are scaled down. 2000 is plenty for a full-screen lightbox; the gallery tiles use much smaller generated sizes. 320 to 6000.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Encoder quality, 40–100. 82 is a good balance; above 90 grows files fast with little visible gain.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Keep each photo’s own proportions (best for the Mosaic and Masonry layouts), or crop everything to one shape for a perfectly uniform wall. Crops are centered on the busiest part of the photo. One of original, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 4:5; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Optional. Describes what these photos generally show, for screen readers and the lightbox caption. Applied to each photo as it is imported — leave empty to import them without alt text.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Master switch. When off, the feed keeps showing its current photos and only refreshes when you run it by hand.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. How often to fetch a fresh set. Change it anytime — no restart. One of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 24, 48; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. After a refresh the old photos stop being shown immediately, but their files are kept this long before being deleted — a safety margin for pages already sent to a browser and for CDN caches. 0 deletes them right away. 0 to 10080.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Set automatically. The schedule paces the next refresh off this.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Why the last refresh failed, when it did. A failed refresh never empties the gallery — the previous photos keep showing.Errors
Errors
Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and Laravel logs and renders the rest (see Errors and testing).
The site refused what was sent:
errors() lists each field’s problem, siteMessage() the first.Retried first: No. Read: errors() (field → messages), siteMessage().The API key is missing or refused (malformed, revoked, expired), or a signature its signing mode needs is missing or stale.Retried first: No. Read:
siteMessage(), errorName(), data().The key may not do this: a scope it lacks, or an address outside its allowlist.
siteMessage() names it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.Retried first: No. Read:
siteMessage(), errorName(), data().The site failed. Its logs say why.Retried first: No: a write may have landed. Read:
siteMessage(), errorName(), data().No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).Retried first: Only when nothing reached the site (
neverConnected()); never after a timeout, when it may have landed. Read: reason(), neverConnected().The client refused to send it (e.g. a path segment of
..); the site never saw it.Retried first: No. Read: reason() (what to change).Any other status, or a success whose JSON doesn’t match this SDK version’s types (update the SDK).Retried first: No. Read:
reason(), status().Attract::site('acme') named a slug that isn’t under sites in config/fetchski-attract.php.Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: getMessage(), $e->slug.Behavior
- Access: an API key with
content:photo-feeds:write(or a master above it:content:photo-feeds:all,content:all,admin:all). A signed-in person may call it as far as their own permissions allow; anyone else gets 403. - Rate limit: the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120); over it, 429 with
Retry-After. The client waits and retries for you; you seeRateLimitedonly if that runs out. - Retries: a write is sent again only after a 429 (refused before it acted) or when it never reached the site. After a timeout or a 5xx it may have landed: check before you send it again.
- Timeout: 15 s per attempt by default; raise
timeoutinconfig/fetchski-attract.phpfor longer.
Test it
It calls the route above with the SDK faked: the fake answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no config or key is needed. Save it astests/Feature/ReplacePhotoFeedTest.php, then run your tests:
tests/Feature/ReplacePhotoFeedTest.php
Terminal
photoFeeds.replacePhotoFeed with PhotoFeed::factory()->make([...]), the fields you give over a valid example.
tests/Feature/ReplacePhotoFeedAnswerTest.php
Related
List a feed’s photos
Attract::photoFeeds()->listPhotoFeedPhotos()List photo feeds
Attract::photoFeeds()->listPhotoFeeds()Create a photo feed
Attract::photoFeeds()->createPhotoFeed()Get a photo feed
Attract::photoFeeds()->getPhotoFeed()Delete a photo feed
Attract::photoFeeds()->deletePhotoFeed()Update a photo feed
Attract::photoFeeds()->updatePhotoFeed()PUT /photo-feed/{_id}
The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.