How can I get a list of content types with drush?

Question

How can I get the existing content type list with drush? This will allow me to quickly produce a list.

I've tried with:

$ drush @d6 @sites genc --types

But I need the devel_generates module enabled for this.

Command genc needs the following module(s) enabled to run: devel_generate.

Answer 1

Try the following commands.

Drupal 7 & 8

drush ev "print_r(array_keys(node_type_get_types()));"

Drupal 5 & 6

drush ev "print_r(array_keys(node_get_types()));"

Answer 2

List of names:

drush sqlq "SELECT name FROM node_type;"

List of machine names:

drush sqlq "SELECT type FROM node_type;"

This works in D6 and D7.

The first line of the command's output will be name or type, respectively. Pipe |tail -n +2 if you want to drop that first line.

Answer 3

You can create a drush command named content-type-list. Create a module named drush_content_types, inside the drush_content_types.drush.inc file put this code:

<?php
/**
 * @file
 * Drush commands related to Content Types.
 */

/**
* Implements hook_drush_command().
*/
function drush_content_types_drush_command() {
  $items['content-type-list'] = array(
    'description' => dt("Show a list of available content types."),
    'aliases' => array('ctl'),
  );
  return $items;
}

/**
 * Callback for the content-type-list command.
 */
function drush_drush_content_types_content_type_list() {
  $content_types = array_keys(node_type_get_types());
  sort($content_types);

  drush_print(dt("Machine name"));
  drush_print(implode("\r\n", $content_types));
}

Install the module, run drush cc drush to clear the drush cache and use the command like this:

drush ctl

or

drush content-type-list

If you want add another alias to the command add elements to the aliases array like this:

'aliases' => array('ctl', 'all-content-types', 'act'),

And you can use this commands:

drush act
drush all-content-types
drush ctl
drush content-type-list

Always the output will be:

Machine name:
content 1
content 2
content...
content n

Answer 4

If you know how to do it in Drupal, you just need to use drush eval:

Drupal 6:

drush eval '$types = node_get_types(); foreach($types as $type => $object) { print $type . "\n"; }'

Drupal 7:

drush eval '$types = node_type_get_types(); foreach($types as $type => $object) { print $type . "\n"; }'

See this list of drush commands for other useful examples using eval.

Answer 5

Drupal 9

drush ev "print_r(array_keys(\Drupal\node\Entity\NodeType::loadMultiple()));"

Answer 6

For a more rich, complete, report, you can use site_audit, which will give you content types, fields, and a ton of extra information

https://www.drupal.org/project/site_audit

Drutiny is as well a good tool, not necessarily for content types, but in order to get a ton of extra information from your site

https://drutiny.github.io/2.3.x/getting-started/