Obtaining a list of files in a static folder without an index?

[matthillco]

OK, thanks for the reply. Next question then: could Zola support this in the future? It would be an extremely useful feature to interrogate arbitrary folders (although I understand there could be context, security or os-level considerations).

EDIT: Looks like this request was previously made here:

New global functions `get_files` or similar

Sometimes it’s useful to iterate over files to use them in templates. You can do this using page.assets, but this does not include files that are not colocated with that page. We could have a get_files(path=<some path>) that returns a list of files in path. Optionally we could make that recursive. Additionally, it would be useful for get_files to accept some glob, for example get_files(path=<some_path>, glob="*.jpg"), because otherwise looping over the returned vector might be a big cumbersome…