md-template 0.1.1

A tool to generate markdown tables based on a set of files

Markdown Template

A tool to help primarily with generating Markdown tables based on a set of files. This is particularly useful to repositories that contain several subprojects, such as userscript repos.

Installation

This will install md-template and natsort as well as PyYAML for the userscript preset.

pip install md-template[full]

For the most minimal installation.

pip install md-template
# or with natsort (recommended)
pip install md-template[natsort]

Usage

Command-line

The easiest but most restricted method.

# md-template --help
md-template table --preset scoop --dry-run

Class-based

See table.presets for more detailed examples.

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable

from mdtemplate.table import TableTemplate


class MyTemplate(TableTemplate):
    files = "bucket/*.json"
    columns = ("Name", "Branch")
    source = "README.md"  # default

    def handle_path(self, path: Path) -> Iterable[Iterable[str]]:
        # create a row
        yield [
            # include information using the current filepath
            f"Column 1: **{path.name}**",
            # use information from the git repository
            f"Column 2: {self.repository.branch}",
        ]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    MyTemplate().parse_args().render()

Function-based

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable

from mdtemplate.table import TableTemplate


def handle_path(self: TableTemplate, path: Path) -> Iterable[Iterable[str]]:
    # create a row
    yield [
        # include information using the current filepath
        f"Column 1: **{path.name}**",
        # use information from the git repository
        f"Column 2: {self.repository.branch}",
    ]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    TableTemplate(
        files="bucket/*.json",
        columns=("Name", "Branch"),
        source="README.md",  # default
        handle_path=handle_path,
    ).parse_args().render()

Output

Both the class-based and function-based examples above generate the same table.

Input

# My Repository

<!-- table -->
<!-- table-end -->

Output

# My Repository

<!-- table -->
| Name | Branch |
| ---- | ------ |
| Column 1: **filename.json** | Column 2: main |
<!-- table-end -->