diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2019 Tom Sydney Kerckhove
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# remote-static
diff --git a/src/Yesod/EmbeddedStatic/Remote.hs b/src/Yesod/EmbeddedStatic/Remote.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
+
+module Yesod.EmbeddedStatic.Remote
+  ( embedRemoteFileAt
+  , ensureFile
+  ) where
+
+import Control.Monad
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as LB
+import Language.Haskell.TH
+import Network.HTTP.Client
+import Network.HTTP.Client.TLS
+import System.Directory
+import System.FilePath
+import Yesod.EmbeddedStatic
+import Yesod.EmbeddedStatic.Types
+
+-- | Embed a file after downloading it (once, and caching it locally)
+embedRemoteFileAt ::
+     FilePath -- ^ The path to put it (relative)
+  -> String -- ^ The url to download it from
+  -> Generator
+embedRemoteFileAt fp url = do
+  runIO $ ensureFile fp url
+  embedFile fp
+
+ensureFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO ()
+ensureFile rp url = do
+  createDirectoryIfMissing True $ takeDirectory rp
+  exists <- doesFileExist rp
+  unless exists $ do
+    man <- newManager tlsManagerSettings
+    putStrLn $ unwords ["Downloading", url, "to put it at", rp]
+    req <- parseUrlThrow url
+    resp <- httpLbs req man
+    LB.writeFile rp $ responseBody resp
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
+
+module Main where
+
+import Yesod.EmbeddedStatic
+import Yesod.EmbeddedStatic.Remote
+
+mkEmbeddedStatic
+  False
+  "myStatic"
+  [ embedRemoteFileAt
+      "tmp/test/deep/README.md"
+      "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NorfairKing/yesod-static-remote/master/README.md"
+  ]
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = pure ()
diff --git a/yesod-static-remote.cabal b/yesod-static-remote.cabal
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+cabal-version: 1.12
+
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.31.1.
+--
+-- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
+--
+-- hash: 1fa979e2ae3a67d8c5387c3970bda5bfe431c85f03fe6dbbd5498ff32d46b908
+
+name:           yesod-static-remote
+version:        0.0.0.0
+description:    Please see the README on GitHub at <https://github.com/NorfairKing/remote-static#readme>
+homepage:       https://github.com/NorfairKing/yesod-static-remote#readme
+bug-reports:    https://github.com/NorfairKing/yesod-static-remote/issues
+author:         Tom Sydney Kerckhove
+maintainer:     syd@cs-syd.eu
+copyright:      Copyright: (c) 2019 Tom Sydney Kerckhove
+license:        MIT
+license-file:   LICENSE
+build-type:     Simple
+extra-source-files:
+    README.md
+
+source-repository head
+  type: git
+  location: https://github.com/NorfairKing/yesod-static-remote
+
+library
+  exposed-modules:
+      Yesod.EmbeddedStatic.Remote
+  other-modules:
+      Paths_yesod_static_remote
+  hs-source-dirs:
+      src
+  build-depends:
+      base >=4.7 && <5
+    , bytestring
+    , directory
+    , filepath
+    , http-client
+    , http-client-tls
+    , template-haskell
+    , yesod-static
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+
+test-suite remote-static-test
+  type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is: Spec.hs
+  other-modules:
+      Paths_yesod_static_remote
+  hs-source-dirs:
+      test
+  ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
+  build-depends:
+      base >=4.7 && <5
+    , yesod-static
+    , yesod-static-remote
+  default-language: Haskell2010