Easy Publish

Easy publish is a Python library that provides a simple abstraction for publishing text files as blog posts.

Installation

Requires: Python >= 3.6

python3 -m pip install easy-publish

Usage

To use easy publish import and call the generate_posts function pointing it to the directory your files are located in. The generate_posts function returns an object that has two useful class variables: metadata and posts. metadata is a list of metadata about each of your posts(the "Including Markdown" section explains how to include metadata). posts is a list of post objects that include metadata and post content.

Below is a simple flask app with jinja templating that utilizes easy publish and the metadata/post objects. While this example uses flask/jinja, any web framework/templating engine should work with easy publish.

app.py

from flask import Flask, render_template
from easy_publish import generate_posts

app = Flask(__name__)
posts = generate_posts("~/path/to/blogposts")

@app.route("/blog")
def blog():
  return render_template("blog.html", metadata=posts.metadata)

@app.route("/blog/<p>")
def blogpost(p):
  return render_template("post.html", post=posts.posts[p])

blog.html

{{% for post in metadata %}}
  <li>{{ post.title }}</li>
  <li>{{ post.date }}</li>
  <li>{{ post.tags }}</li>
  <li>{{ post.author }}</li>
{{% endfor %}}

post.html

<h1>{{ post.title }}</h1>
<h4>{{ post.date }}</h1>
<h4>{{ post.author }}</h1>
<p>{{ post.content }}</p>

Including Metadata

Easy publish expects text files to have a section at the top denoting metadata information. The section should be in the following format:

~
title: title would go here
date: date would go here
tags: tags, would, go, here (comma separated)
author: author would go here
~

The parser looks for information in between the ~'s and strips it out into the metadata. It's on the list of TODO's to add different ways to include metadata.

Contributing

Currently in heavy development and not a stable interface. Feel free to contribute ideas as issues or as a pull request.

License

MIT