Dynamic construction of http_url

[espinielli]

The data I would like to fetch is a timestamped filename, like https://example.com/data<date today - 1 day>.csv

So if today (the date Flat Action is triggered) is the 2nd June 2021 the file is

https://example.com/data20210601.csv

Would it be possible to build that url and use it for http_url? I.e. having a variable/dynamic http_url?

[Wattenberger]

This sounds like a great feature to add, and this isn't the first time it's come up. It's a larger change than we have time for right now, but we're more than open to PRs!

In the meantime, two (far from ideal!) workarounds I can think of:

• hitting a static endpoint that returns the dynamic content
• embedding the dynamic portion of the url in a GitHub secret that is updated daily