How to expose all the ACF fields to Wordpress REST API in both pages and custom postypes

Question

I want to expose all the ACF fields that belong to a page or custom post type to the WordPress REST API in order to do some API calls through javascript.

The final expected result would be all the ACF fields inside an ACF object that you can easily access.

Answer 1

Another simple solution that is working perfect for me now. You can add the following function on functions.php or fields.php Using ACF getFields before sending a rest request. You can add this to any special page rest_prepare_page or rest_prepare_post.

The ACF data will be in the json response with key acf

// add this to functions.php
//register acf fields to Wordpress API
//https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/json-rest-api-and-acf/

function acf_to_rest_api($response, $post, $request) {
    if (!function_exists('get_fields')) return $response;

    if (isset($post)) {
        $acf = get_fields($post->id);
        $response->data['acf'] = $acf;
    }
    return $response;
}
add_filter('rest_prepare_post', 'acf_to_rest_api', 10, 3);