Suggestion: allow the inclusion of external images in galleries

[lamons]

Currently the theme generate gallery by listing image files in /content/imgaes. I think it would be useful if it's possible to include images hosted on external source, since many folks host sites on Github while Github is not ideal for hosting a large number of big image files. The way of inclusion could be - as I can come up with - putting image urls in a certain format in the gallery's index.md, or a single file containing list of urls in /content/imgaes.

[bep]

Yea, maybe, but I need to think about this.

What I currently do with the one site I'm building with this is to mount a folder which I don't push to Git:

https://github.com/bep/staticbattery.com/blob/ff41520823899cec71024e3d03120e3c74258277/config.toml#L48

That folder gets updated with an Album + a publish service in Lightroom.

This is works for any number of images (as long as I have space in local drive).

I think I would hate having to maintain a list of URLs/images in a file, but if I could somehow query this list(s) at build time, that would be cool ...

[bep]

Thinking about this, I suspect that what you want is already possible ... I'll see if I can demonstrate that when I find the time ...

[bep]

See https://github.com/bep/gallerydeluxe-demo-images-listed-in-a-file

I a little quick and rough around the edges, but the concept works.

[bep]

Also, you can mount many remote GitHub repos into one content folder, if you want.

[lamons]

See https://github.com/bep/gallerydeluxe-demo-images-listed-in-a-file

I a little quick and rough around the edges, but the concept works.

Thanks! This workflow actually fits perfectly to my personal case, as I am planning to host my images on Cloudflare R2 or something similar. As for querying the list I guess it would be possible to mount the bucket to local and then mount the path to Hugo, but I guess it would be great to keep the "manual" option open.

However as I understand this solution will still load the original images to /public while building the site, is it possible to use remote images directly in the gallery? I guess generating and storing thumbnails in local is fine but the ability to point to the remote urls of images would be useful.