Can Hugo directly create content from remote without the use of extra scripts?

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Continuing the discussion from Integration of Google Sheets API:

Hi there,

Since Hugo get data from remote can it be used in native Hugo to turn the data to content without the use of extra scripts or code?

the content I get is from google sheets in .csv format and each row is a house listing for sale/rent

Since Hugo gets this data can it just directly convert it to pages in the

content/listings/listing1/index.md
content/listings/listing2/index.md
content/listings/listing3/index.md

andeverytime I run Hugo the get.Remote simply check and update the content which already exist if changed. or it is not possible to do such things with native Hugo?

Thanks

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Yes, but this is (currently) a somewhat advanced topic. There are a couple of approaches, but in my view this is the best approach:
https://www.thenewdynamic.com/article/toward-using-a-headless-cms-with-hugo-part-1

You run Hugo twice: once to create markdown files from data, then again to publish the site.

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Thanks agains @jmooring

This is a very nice post but since it was published 2 years ago when Hugo was on v0.101.0 I wonder if this is still the best way to do it?

It would be great if I can set in the site config something to import data such as:

Params:
 remotePages:
  url: https://remotedata.com/test.json
  directory: content/listings/

So that Hugo take the listings from the remote and create listing pages in content/listings/

Thanks

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Yes.

You can, but you still need to use the approach described in the article.

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