Fetch content from external sources

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I’ve got some articles in a database which can be accessed by a REST API. It would be great to access these articles from Nuxt Content.

Describe the solution you’d like

For example: const { title } = await this.$content('https://some-api/article-1').only(['title']).fetch()

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Instead of accessing them like above. Download markdown files to the content directory and access them in the regular way.

Thanks for all the hard work and the awesome new features!

[benjamincanac]

Hey @janekkkk,

Nuxt Content parses markdown files on the file system on load and builds an API around the database generated from the content directory, it cannot be used on eternal sources.

You’re alternative seems the way to go.

[sillvva]

I also would like to be able to host my markdown files in Firebase Cloud Storage and fetch them at runtime via an API. I already figured out hot to dynamically generate the routes. The only thing I haven’t figured out is how to parse the markdown into the <nuxt-content> tag. Some of my markdown files have vue components in them, so a 3rd party API isn’t a feasible option for me.