Jinja-Frontmatter

Utilities to handle frontmatters in Jinja templates

Installation

pip install jinja-frontmatter

Remove frontmatter from templates

from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
from jinja_frontmatter import RemoveFrontmatterLoader, get_template_frontmatter
import yaml

env = Environment(loader=RemoveFrontmatterLoader(PackageLoader(__name__, 'templates')))
frontmatter = get_template_frontmatter(env, "template.html") # frontmatter as text
frontmatter = get_template_frontmatter(env, "template.html", loads=yaml.safe_load) # frontmatter as yaml

Access YAML frontmatters in templates

from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
from jinja_frontmatter import YAMLFrontmatterExtension

env = Environment(loader=PackageLoader(__name__, 'templates'))
env.add_extension(YAMLFrontmatterExtension)

In your template:

---
foo: bar
---
{{ frontmatter.foo }}