This plugin allows for easier population of deep content structures using the rest API.

npm install strapi-plugin-populate-deep

yarn add strapi-plugin-populate-deep

Populate a request with the default max depth.

/api/articles?populate=deep

Populate a request with the a custom depth

/api/articles?populate=deep,10

Populate a request with the a custom depth

/api/articles/1?populate=deep,10

The default max depth is 5 levels deep.

The populate deep option is available for all collections and single types using the findOne and findMany methods.

The default depth can be customized via the plugin config. To do so create or edit you plugins.js file.

config/plugins.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  'strapi-plugin-populate-deep': {
    config: {
      defaultDepth: 3, // Default is 5
    }
  },
});

The original idea for getting the populate structure was created by tomnovotny7 and can be found in this github thread