Execute as specific item entity

[latent hamlet]

Hey, I think there's a way to do this but I'm not smart enough to figure it out from reading the wiki.

Can I execute a command as an item entity? For example, in my data pack I want to be able to run a command as every tnt item entity. If this is possible, how would I go about doing it? Thanks!

I assume it will be something like execute as @e[type=item{<idk_what_goes_here>} run <commands>

The @e[type=item{<idk_what_goes_here>} is what I need help with.

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[latent hamlet]

Now that I've posted this I realize that this may be the incorrect place to ask questions about this, since it's more of a commands question than a data pack one. If so, my apologies

[shy karma]

the bare minimum way to do this is just an "execute as @e[type=item,nbt={Item:{id:"minecraft:tnt"}}] run ..."

tho running an nbt check on every item in the world can be expensive so itd probably do the classic trick of something like this:

execute as @e[type=item,tag=!scanned,nbt={Item:{id:"minecraft:tnt"}}] run tag @s add tnt_item
tag @e[type=item] add scanned```
then in a seperate command block:
```hs
execute as @e[type=item,tag=tnt_item] run <the commands you wanted to run>```

item entities store the data of the item they are as an Item nbt tag that looks like this:

[latent hamlet]

Okay, thank you so much for the help!