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Advanced UUID

By Dulaj Ariyaratne

The Strapi Advanced UUID Plugin is a custom plugin for Strapi that automatically generates a unique UUID for your content. It also allows you to generate UUID based on your regular expressions.

Latest version

v2.1.1

released June 14, 2025

npm install strapi-advanced-uuid

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Strapi Advanced UUID

Custom Field plugin for Strapi to generate UUID based on your regular expressions

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The Strapi Advanced UUID Plugin is a custom plugin for Strapi that automatically generates a unique UUID for your content. It also allows you to generate UUID based on your regular expressions.

⚠️ Compatibility with Strapi versions

Starting from version 2.0.0, the Strapi Advanced UUID plugin is compatible with Strapi 5 and can't be used in Strapi 4.4+.

Plugin versionStrapi version
2.x.x≥ 5.0.0
1.x.x≥ 4.4

⚙️ Installation

To install the Strapi Advanced UUID Plugin, simply run one of the following command:

npm install strapi-advanced-uuid
yarn add strapi-advanced-uuid

⚡️ Usage

How to Setup Advanced UUID Field

After installation you will find the Advanced UUID at the custom fields section of the content-type builder.

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Now you can define the field attributes. Advanced UUID field allows you to define the custom regular expression (UUID format) for your field. Default UUID format will be UUID V4.

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How to Use Custom Regular Expression

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Now You can create new records via the Admin panel, API or GraphQL, and the plugin will automatically generate a UUID for each new record created.

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👍 Contribute

If you want to say Thank You and/or support the active development of Strapi Advanced UUID:

  1. Add a GitHub Star to the project.
  2. Support the project by donating a cup of coffee.

🧾 License

This plugin is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

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