I just had a look at https://github.com/ropensci/lingtypology/blob/master/database_creation/glottolog_database_creation_v3.R and I think it might be more transparent - and possibly a way to support multiple versions of referenced databases - if the data was fetched using the version tag, i.e. from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glottolog/glottolog-cldf/v4.5/cldf/codes.csv (etc) rather than from master.