Deliver structured content at scale with GraphQL API.

Legacy REST APIs often burden applications with multiple server calls or excessive data payloads, slowing performance and complicating development. Experience Manager Sites solves this with a native GraphQL API — empowering front-end teams to query exactly the content they need in a single, efficient request.

As the enterprise CMS of choice, Experience Manager Sites combines structured content management with modern delivery capabilities. Its GraphQL integration eliminates rigid endpoint structures, enabling scalable, high-performance content delivery across websites, apps, and digital experiences.

Designed for today’s composable architectures, Experience Manager Sites GraphQL API delivers faster page loads, more agile development, and the flexibility enterprises need to meet evolving customer demands — at scale and with precision.

The GraphQL API within Experience Manager is designed to expose structured content — especially content fragments — for headless delivery across any digital channel. Serving as a single, flexible endpoint, the API enables client applications to fetch exactly what they need, when they need it.

This modern, graph-based approach delivers clear advantages over legacy REST methods:

• Efficiency. Retrieve complex, nested content structures in a single API call — no more chaining multiple endpoints. This simplifies development and speeds up page loads.
• Precision. Developers query only the fields they need, reducing payload size and improving performance, especially on mobile networks.
• Flexibility. The GraphQL API is front-end agnostic, allowing teams to build with any framework — React, Angular, Vue, and beyond — without being locked into proprietary SDKs.

Generating GraphQL schema.

Experience Manager Sites simplifies headless development by automatically generating GraphQL schemas from your Content Fragment Models — no manual schema creation required. As content architects define or update models, Experience Manager instantly translates those changes into a live, fully typed GraphQL schema at the corresponding endpoint.

This dynamic schema generation delivers enterprise-grade advantages:

• Strong typing and early validation. Schema-enforced typing ensures predictable results and catches invalid queries before execution — saving time and reducing errors during development.
• Built-in introspection. Developers can query the schema itself, enabling features like auto-complete, validation, and in-line documentation with GraphQL tools.
• Content-driven consistency. The schema reflects the actual content structure, acting as a single source of truth. This tight alignment between authors and developers streamlines collaboration and eliminates schema drift.

By automating schema generation, Experience Manager Sites accelerates headless builds, reduces maintenance overhead, and bridges the gap between structured content and scalable delivery.

Query exactly what you need with GraphQL.

GraphQL gives client applications full control over the structure and specificity of their content requests. In Experience Manager Sites, developers use GraphQL queries to efficiently retrieve structured content from content fragments — tailored to their application’s needs. Key capabilities include:

• Field selection. Retrieve only the fields you need — nothing more — minimizing payload size and boosting performance.
• Targeted fragment access. Query individual content fragments by path or return lists by model type.
• Advanced filtering. Narrow results by applying filters to field values.
• Nested content retrieval. Fetch nested or linked content fragments in a single query — ideal for complex content relationships.
• Localized and variant content. Request specific variations of a fragment to serve personalized, regional, or channel-specific experiences.
• Dynamic queries with variables. Inject values like IDs or search terms at runtime to build flexible, reusable queries without rewriting the structure.

With GraphQL in Sites, developers gain a powerful, intuitive interface for headless content access — designed for speed, scalability, and precision.

In Experience Manager Sites, GraphQL queries are sent to designated endpoints — specific URLs that serve as access points for headless content delivery. Unlike REST APIs with multiple endpoints for different resources, GraphQL centralizes interactions through a single endpoint per configuration, simplifying development and improving maintainability.

To ensure proper governance, GraphQL endpoints in Sites must be explicitly configured, enabled, and published by an administrator. This approach reinforces security and control before exposing structured content. Sites supports two types of GraphQL endpoints:

• Global endpoint. Grants access to Content Fragment Models defined in the global configuration, along with models from any site-specific configurations. Ideal for shared content structures reused across projects.
• Site-specific endpoint. Tied to a particular site or project configuration, this endpoint restricts access to only that configuration’s models plus those in the global scope — providing clear isolation and minimizing cross-project exposure.

This flexible setup enables enterprises to manage content delivery across brands, regions, or business units with precision — ensuring scalability without compromising security or clarity.