Want to change markdown of content while build. Possible?

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I’m going to include a pageview counter using a simple external key-value storage. Is there a way to read value from the API on the fly, while Hugo builds? Or right before the build. Is this possible?

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https://gohugo.io/hugo-pipes/introduction/#get-resource-with-resourcesget-and-resourcesgetremote

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Sorry, I’m looking for a way to save markdown with a new value. Will this help?

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Sure.

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There have been {{< num-visits >}} visits to this page.

Then in layouts/shortcodes/num-visits.html you call the external api with resources.GetRemote.

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This was not too clear, so I continued to explore and found Add .RenderShortcodes · Issue #7297 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub
Basically, this is not what I have looked for initially. Initially, I wanted a kind of PreProcessor that will get value from API and save a simple integer value in the front matter. But… this may be useful too.

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If you’re going to do that, write the results to one or more json/yaml/toml files to the data directory.

Why don’t you just do this client-side?