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Does Pelican allow to use external content files that are not written in Markdown? I'd like to load content from a JSON file to enrich certain pages or even create whole site structures dynamically. I couldn't find anything related in neither the documentation nor the plugin repo.

edit: It seems one might be able to write a custom reader for that according to https://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/internals.html#how-to-...

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Use the reader plugin pelican-json-reader [1] and modify for your own use case.

[1] https://github.com/jessaustin/pelican-json-reader

Thanks. It seems that Pelican is very restrictive in what content structures it allows. Do you know whether it can work with arbitrary JSON structures somehow?

In my other post I put a link [1] to pelican internal model. You can customise it the way you want as it’s a simple model. It’s not restrictive. You can write a plug-in to do what you would like and it’s easy with version 4.5.

[1] https://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/internals.html#overall...

Write a short python or javascript to do what you want and put it in a build script.

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