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Runtime API Examples

This page demonstrates usage of some of the runtime APIs provided by VitePress.

The main useData() API can be used to access site, theme, and page data for the current page. It works in both .md and .vue files:

md
<script setup>
import { useData } from 'vitepress'

const { theme, page, frontmatter } = useData()
</script>

## Results

### Theme Data
<pre>{{ theme }}</pre>

### Page Data
<pre>{{ page }}</pre>

### Page Frontmatter
<pre>{{ frontmatter }}</pre>

Results

Theme Data

{
  "nav": [
    {
      "text": "Home",
      "link": "/"
    },
    {
      "text": "Getting Started",
      "link": "/getting-started"
    },
    {
      "text": "API Reference",
      "link": "/api-reference"
    }
  ],
  "sidebar": [
    {
      "text": "General",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Quickstart",
          "link": "/getting-started"
        },
        {
          "text": "Diff tracking",
          "link": "/getting-started/diff-tracking"
        },
        {
          "text": "Column Specification",
          "link": "/getting-started/columns"
        },
        {
          "text": "The Flow",
          "link": "/getting-started/flow"
        },
        {
          "text": "Change Notes",
          "link": "/getting-started/change-notes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Examples",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Nutanix to SQL Server",
          "link": "/examples/nutanix-to-sqlserver"
        },
        {
          "text": "SqlServer to iTop",
          "link": "/examples/sqlserver-to-itop"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Schema specification",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Configuration",
          "link": "/schemas/configuration"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Sources",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Csv",
          "link": "/sources/csv"
        },
        {
          "text": "Excel",
          "link": "/sources/excel"
        },
        {
          "text": "Faker",
          "link": "/sources/faker"
        },
        {
          "text": "iTop",
          "link": "/sources/itop"
        },
        {
          "text": "MongoDB",
          "link": "/sources/mongodb"
        },
        {
          "text": "MySQL",
          "link": "/sources/mysql"
        },
        {
          "text": "Postgres",
          "link": "/sources/postgres"
        },
        {
          "text": "Rest API",
          "link": "/sources/rest"
        },
        {
          "text": "Static",
          "link": "/sources/static"
        },
        {
          "text": "SQL Server",
          "link": "/sources/sqlserver"
        },
        {
          "text": "Xml",
          "link": "/sources/xml"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Transformers",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Using Transformers",
          "link": "/transformers/using-transformers"
        },
        {
          "text": "Frames",
          "link": "/transformers/frames"
        },
        {
          "text": "Integers",
          "link": "/transformers/int"
        },
        {
          "text": "iTop",
          "link": "/transformers/itop"
        },
        {
          "text": "Miscellaneous",
          "link": "/transformers/misc"
        },
        {
          "text": "Regex",
          "link": "/transformers/regex"
        },
        {
          "text": "Strings",
          "link": "/transformers/strings"
        },
        {
          "text": "Structs",
          "link": "/transformers/structs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Developer Reference",
      "items": [
        {
          "text": "Extending BeETL",
          "link": "/developer-reference/extending"
        },
        {
          "text": "Creating a Source",
          "link": "/developer-reference/creating-source"
        },
        {
          "text": "Creating a Transformer",
          "link": "/developer-reference/creating-transformer"
        },
        {
          "text": "Submitting improvements",
          "link": "/developer-reference/improvements"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "socialLinks": [
    {
      "icon": "github",
      "link": "https://github.com/hoglandets-it/beetl"
    }
  ]
}

Page Data

{
  "title": "Runtime API Examples",
  "description": "",
  "frontmatter": {
    "outline": "deep"
  },
  "headers": [],
  "relativePath": "api-reference.md",
  "filePath": "api-reference.md"
}

Page Frontmatter

{
  "outline": "deep"
}

More

Check out the documentation for the full list of runtime APIs.