I know you can’t make pages, content pages, from data files. But… could I make a single content file, have nothing in the body and in the front matter have some value that I can do a find/match to a data structure in the template, and then pull in data from under that matched heading to populate the…

I think that content adapters solves this now. Replying here since this thread came up in a google search for “hugo data driven content”.

No way to add taxonomies to the post given your exact example though right? (I mean, unless you have your script generate those frontmatter taxonomy entries based on the data file?) also, why JSON, why not toml or yaml?

[image] gaetawoo: , it wouldn’t know what values to search the data file with… or does it? You have to tell it. Basically 2 options: By convention (random element, use the day number, whatever) Passing what you want as a OS env, e.g. QUERY="name = 'foo'" hugo new "post/foo.md" and use geten…

Ha! Thanks so much for that @bep :+1: I wouldn’t have thought of using Hugo environment variables this way! @gaetawoo Here is a working example based on the code snippets given in this excellent topic: [Solved] CSV data key lookup Contents of /data/abc.csv id, description, color, number, cat, …

Thanks! That shows a lot of power. I guess you could actually do the content that way too if one so chose. I’ll have to think through my options now that I have a few ways to approach.

I seem to recall @budparr writing a slick blog post on how to use csplit to create individual markdown files from data as well, but I can’t find it on The New Dynamic for some reason. Maybe he has some recommendations as well.

Mentioned here, btw: [image] Effectively export content that contains Hugo shortcodes for use with another framework support @budparr I like the ND article you wrote related to this. Full disclosure: the idea is selling a business on JAMStack and Hugo in particular becaus…

[image] gaetawoo: I guess you could actually do the content that way too if one so chose. The above technique will output various markdown files from a single CSV file when using the command hugo new. After that you will have a pretty conventional content directory. Also you could use some a…

That article is 404. The other technique I was using up until today involved the csplit command indeed and the article that documented it is over here: [image] Converting CSV Tables to Markdown Files If you build a lot of Statamic sites, you’ll eventually have to split Excel or CSV table…

I just want to say that I have used the above technique with a complex CSV to split it in various markdown files and it works flawlessly. I did encounter a couple of caveats that are unrelated to Hugo but I managed to fix them so I’m posting these fixes here in case someone else encounters them: W…

[image] alexandros: Tip 3: The Hugo new command can create markdown files in the specified PATH (Big time saver) What exactly do you mean by this (other than what you’ve written in the code example above)?

Work-around for making pages from data?

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Mentioned here, btw:

Topic		Replies	Views
Creating Files from Data (like Product pages) support	11	4609	January 23, 2019
Create pages based on data files support	4	936	March 7, 2023
Using CSV file to create individual posts on build support	14	4343	October 31, 2019
Generate Pages from Database (for large inventory) support	10	3911	August 14, 2020
JSON as data for websites support	4	2979	December 7, 2021

Work-around for making pages from data?

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