Question regarding automatic data retrieval

[Aetherinox]

For anyone who has used MediaWiki in the past, it has an extension known as WikiData which allows you to fetch information. Just as an example, you can fetch the date that a software title released their latest version.

Is their any solution like this for the material theme, since you guys have your own set of plugins. Or would this be more of a base mkdocs question.

It would be nice to query / retrieve information that can be automatically updated in the docs without the need of having to manually go and fetch updated information all the time.

I'm aware of mkdocs and the material theme being a static site generator, however, there are a few plugins out there that can fetch information from websites and show it as external data. One of them I'm using with mkdocs and the material theme.

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hi @Aetherinox,
I'm not aware of any plugin that builds a "metadata" index for all pages in the docs. As you said MkDocs is a SSG, so there is on;y a sitemap.xml or maybe you could use the search_index as an API endpoint.

But none of them really provide the information you seek. Maybe the git date plugins that are typically recommended as a way to keep track of updates could be extended to also generate a metadata index with all sites in one endpoint:
https://github.com/timvink/mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin/

[jaywhj]

@Aetherinox @kamilkrzyskow
You guys can try this new plugin first mkdocs-document-dates
To fully satisfy this need of yours,may be have to add a new feature based on this plugin, I can try it, but it will take a bit of time

[kamilkrzyskow]

Thanks for stepping in, I somehow forgot to mention / check the catalog and there you have it :)
https://github.com/mkdocs/catalog/blob/main/README.md#-git-repos--info