Does Bluehawk support snippet creation from remote files?

[RichardJECooke]

Our documentation currently pulls in code snippets directly into Markdown files through a custom annotation syntax from 67 external repositories. If we switched to Bluehawk (so that all code snippets would be browsable in our documentation in one folder), would our compilation script first have to download every single code repository locally, or can Bluehawk generate snippets from a file in Github at a URL?

If remote file reading is not possible, are there any significant challenges for us making a pull request to Bluehawk to add the feature? Would the architecture require an overhaul?

Thanks.

[krollins-mdb]

Thanks for asking here, @RichardJECooke! Currently, Bluehawk does operate on local files (whether that's on your machine or a VM in CI or something). It doesn't have any HTTP handling.

The architecture is modular, so we wouldn't need to overhaul it. We'd absolutely welcome a PR! But before that, let me talk with the team to see what pattern we'd like to see here. I'd hate to have you do work only for us to ask you to change it.

I should be able to get back to you by Tuesday or Wednesday next week.