Is it possible to get a random document?

[prime radish]

i want to randomise

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[lean bane]

Not out of the box, but you could add a custom endpoint to your collection and do some custom logic in it. https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints

Then use req.payload with the local API, get totalDoc count, then do something creative with pagination/limit.

Maybe limit: 1 and page: randomIntInTotalDocRange

Is it possible to get a random document?

[prime radish]

i am trying to get random documents in batches and would want to not less repeated documents. just like instagram reels

[undone marlin]

So the batches themselves should be de-duped?

[merry spoke]

Is this still the best way to do it? 🙂 Shouldn't something like sort: 'RANDOM()', be a nice thing?

[undone marlin]

You could make a feature request on the repository to add that!