REST API

The Breadcrumbs addon for Webtools allows you to get a computed breadcrumb trail in the Strapi API response. You can populate the breadcrumbs like you would with any regular relation.

Example request

GET http://localhost:1337/api/home-page?populate=breadcrumbs

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 2,
    "documentId": "ke1s1aroaexv8jt03iuxn81g",
    "title": "Robust Strapi plugins for your project",
    "createdAt": "2025-03-09T16:45:24.886Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-03-13T20:38:43.112Z",
    "publishedAt": "2025-03-13T17:06:57.578Z",
    "locale": "en",
    "breadcrumbs": {
      "items": [
        {
          "label": "Home",
          "url": "/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Plugins overview",
          "url": "/plugins"
        },
        {
          "label": "Strapi Webtools",
          "url": "/plugins/webtools"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "meta": {}
}

Permissions

To fetch the breadcrumbs from the API you need to enable the 'find' permissions of the Breadcrumbs content type.