How to grab image metadata from images inserted into Content blocks?

I’d really like to be able to grab image metadata from images inserted into Content blocks, but all I seem to be able to get back is a reference. How can I expand references contained inside portable text blocks?

Hi Andrew, have you tried something like this? If

content

*[_type == "post"]{
  ...,
  "content": content[] {
    ...select(
      _type == "image" => {
        ...,
        "asset": asset->
      } 
    )
  }
}

Hi Andrew, have you tried something like this? If

content

*[_type == "post"]{
  ...,
  "content": content[] {
    ...select(
      _type == "image" => {
        ...,
        "asset": asset->
      } 
    )
  }
}

You have awesome timing, I was just cobbling together something like this from what I could deconstruct from https://www.sanity.io/docs/presenting-block-text — but you helped me get the last piece in place

oddly enough, going off the examples, I ended up forming a query much like what you’ve got up there, except without the

…select

select

(also thank you! 🙏 )

Glad it’s working! If you’re not using

select

// Projections also have syntactic sugar for inline conditionals

Brilliant. Makes perfect sense.