# Is Remote Data populated during build time?

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/is-remote-data-populated-during-build-time/1341>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/is-remote-data-populated-during-build-time/1341 "2022-06-01T12:27:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![arHSM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/arhsm/32/765_2.png) [@arHSM](https://zola.discourse.group/u/arHSM)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/is-remote-data-populated-during-build-time/1341/1 "2022-06-01T12:27:49Z")

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So I was reading the documentation and [Overview | Zola](https://www.getzola.org/documentation/templates/overview/#remote-content) caught my eyes.  
I wanted to migrate my mdbook project to Zola for various reasons, and I was doing a little bit of dynamic DOM populating during runtime instead of build time because I was lazy to write a proper preprocessor for mdbook. But looking at this I assume all requests are made at build time and shortcodes will be populated accordingly?  
If that’s the case then it’ll be great

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**Author:** ![arHSM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/arhsm/32/765_2.png) [@arHSM](https://zola.discourse.group/u/arHSM)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/is-remote-data-populated-during-build-time/1341/2 "2022-06-02T11:42:04Z")

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Turns out it works as I expected 😸.