Add External Media

[kylef-fotf]

Is it possible to attach media to a model that is hosted on another platform?

For example, a model implements HasMedia, and sometimes you need to upload new media to an entry, but other times you are just linking media from another source/domain to the entry. Note that I'm not talking about uploading to S3 in this case, but imagine you want to associate https://someotherwebsite.example/files/coolvideo.mp4 with your entry.

One solution is to just add a new nullable column called "external_media" that stores a URI to the media. The major downsides are

• you would lose access to all the features and methods within SpatieMediaLibrary such as filesize, mimetype, collection, etc.
• now you need to add a lot of logic so your front-end can gracefully account for either internal or external media.

Is there a native way to do this with this package? If not, has anyone been in this situation before?