Ability to get the latest file from an external call

[0xperp]

Hi All -

I know that this maybe isn't the best use case (I should probably have more of an API), but I load .json files into my site that are then pulled in via /_file/data/<file-name>.<content-hash>.json. These are rebuilt every hour on a cron job so the content hash changes quite frequently

I would like to be able to query the file from an external site but it seems like there is no way of knowing the content hash, listing out all the data files and finding the most recent, or something like that? Maybe I am missing something, but would be very much appreciated if this is something that can be done! Thanks.

[Fil]

Currently there is no "site map" or "files manifest", and the only way to do this is to find a page that references them, and scrape it to isolate the following block:

registerFile("./hello.txt", {"name":"./hello.txt","mimeType":"text/plain","path":"./_file/hello.89e049c5.txt","lastModified":1717496456910});
registerFile("./horse.jpg", {"name":"./horse.jpg","mimeType":"image/jpeg","path":"./_file/horse.2d33a223.jpg","lastModified":1717496456910});
registerFile("./pryvit.txt", {"name":"./pryvit.txt","mimeType":"text/plain","path":"./_file/pryvit.a1bbae9b.txt","lastModified":1717496457010});
registerFile("./volcano.json", {"name":"./volcano.json","mimeType":"application/json","path":"./_file/volcano.f5223ec9.json","lastModified":1717496457010});

[0xperp]

Great thanks! Got it with registering all files at /data/raw and a script like

fetch('localhost:3000/data/raw')
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(data => {
    const fileLines = data.split('\n');
    const filteredFiles = fileLines
      .filter(line => line.includes('"path"'))
      .map(line => {
        const pathStartIndex = line.indexOf('"path":"') + 8;
        const pathEndIndex = line.indexOf('"', pathStartIndex);
        const filePath = line.substring(pathStartIndex, pathEndIndex);
        return `${filePath}`;
      });

    const filteredData = { files: filteredFiles };
    console.log(filteredData);
  })
  .catch(error => console.error('Error fetching data:', error));

Appreciate the help