Ability to specify a URL to a .wxr/.wxz hosted in a private GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab repository

[EvanHerman]

It would be nice if we could specify a URL to a .wxr/.wxz file that's hosted in a private git repo. As far as I can tell it's only possible to specify a publicly accessible URL.

[adamziel]

What's technically required to support that? Do you have Basic Auth in mind? Or authenticating via octokit?

[EvanHerman]

I was thinking something like basic auth. If we’re hosting wxr files on a private server or a private git repo it would be great to be able to pull those and pass them to the importFile step in the blueprint.

Looking at the code further it looks like it’s just passing a url to the importer in core, so I’m not sure how feasible this is. I may look into alternatives like a custom script to pull it down before passing it to playground.

[adamziel]

This would make a nice feature proposal for version 2 of the Blueprints library if you'd like to start a new issue: https://github.com/WordPress/blueprints/issues/