I'm wondering if there is support for triggering a preconfigured import from a URL. I have an external process which generates a collection of HTML files which are then passed to the Import HTML module, and our current process requires someone to load the Import HTML page and trigger an Import. It was hoping to be able to trigger an import from an external system. Is there any way to automate this process?

If there isn't, what would be the best place to start looking if I were thinking of adding the ability to trigger a batch process from an external system.

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Clearing the old 6.x issues from the issue queue for a cleanup.

I'd look into feeds and related systems for this.

Yes, some of the import_html utility could be leveraged to help this, but the architecture would be significantly different from the core process we have right now.
Something like what you described WAS planed in the import_html 'static' helper module (which should have been able to read/write an html file and sync it with a node - so that a file write/change would freshen the DB node), but it never made progress.