Can I call APIs with this?

[wistfulglen]

Still very new to this whole thing, so apologies for the possibly obvious question. I'm curious if it's possible for Material to connect and call APIs?

[squidfunk]

If the API you want to call is callable from the browser, yes, definitely. We're already doing it when rendering the number of GitHub stars and forks. You can add your call via additional JavaScript, maybe something like:

docs/javascripts/api.js:

fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/squidfunk/mkdocs-material")
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error)

mkdocs.yml:

extra_javascript:
  - javascripts/api.js