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| Fetching external API data with Astro | 2023-02-08 | daily/2023/02/08/fetching-api-data-with-astro |
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As well as using static data like Astro components and Markdown files, Astro allows you to pull in data from external APIs even if you're generating a static website.
Astro's Data Fetching documentation shows how to do this using the global fetch function. This is the same approach that I've been using to build a page of my open-source projects. I'm still working on it, but it fetches project information from both Drupal.org and GitHub and displays them on a page.
This is also makes Astro a good option to be used as a front-end for decoupled projects that use a separate back-end CMS like Drupal to store and manage the content which it fetches and uses when generating the site.