Hello, when I run the hugo command is there a way to create a SITE.Data structure based on a URL? Can Hugo fetch data early in the build step then use that to build? I want to create an entire section of content populated with data from an API. I am searching the docs and forums but have not yet found a resource that describes this type of functionality. Thank you.
There is an in-progress effort to enable this capability, and I suspect it will be available in a few months, if not weeks. This was made possible by a number of the structural changes that were made in v0.123.0.
In the interim, there are a couple of approaches you can use, one of which (prebuild) is described/exemplified here:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5074#issuecomment-1666665712
The other approach is to use resources.FromString and publish each file. This has several limitations, so the prebuild approach is preferable.
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This is great for resources used within a layout but how will you create multiple pages with that?
Thank you. Yeah I remember reacting to some posts on Twitter I think last summer about this topic. I feel it is a real game changer, for me at least.
Regis’ solution with a “nested” Hugo project is quite amazing and saved me lots of time.
Properly integrating pages generated from data into Hugo would be great, because running two instances of Hugo during development is very error-prone.
Wow, that’s a great idea. I think I will wait on this one for an official solution.
bep modified the milestones: v0.125.0, v0.126.0 Apr 23, 2024 (last week)
The milestones are not terribly meaningful. They are automatically pushed forward each time there’s a new release. If I were you I’d subscribe to this issue:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/12440
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