mkdocs-extract-listings-plugin 0.0.4

Create a page that contains all of your listings and/or a search function for listings

mkdocs-extract-listings-plugin

A small plugin to extract all your listings and put them in a single page. It can also generate a search function of code listings with different search methods (fuzzy match, substring, contains words).

Demo

You can try out the demo at https://mkdocs-extract-listings-plugin.six-two.dev. It is configured to offer both the search and all listings pages an uses the plugin with some common MkDocs themes (mkdocs, readthedocs, and material). The source for this demo is also in this repo (mkdocs.yml, docs/ and build.sh).

Setup

1. Install the plugin using pip:

   pip install mkdocs-extract-listings-plugin
   

2. Add the plugin to your mkdocs.yml:

   plugins:
   - search
   - extract_listings
   

   If you have no plugins entry in your config file yet, you'll likely also want to add the search plugin. MkDocs enables it by default if there is no plugins entry set.

   More information about plugins in the MkDocs documentation.

3. Configure a page with all listings, a page with listing search, or both (see below).

Listing page

Add a Markdown file for the page that will be filled with all the listings. In that file add the placeholder where the listings should be inserted. Then reference that file and specify the placeholder like this in your mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
- extract_listings:
    listings_file: listings.md
    placeholder: PLACEHOLDER_LISTINGS_PLUGIN

Listing search

1. Create a page, which should contain the search function.

2. Add a tag where the search elements should be inserted and load the search script:

   <div id="listing-extract-search"></div>
   <script src="/listing-search.js">
   

3. Specify where you want the plugin to write the script file to. This should match the path you used in the previous step. In mkdocs.yml:

   plugins:
   - extract_listings:
       javascript_search_file: listing-search.js
   

Configuration

You can configure the plugin like this:

plugins:
- extract_listings:
    listings_file: listings.md
    placeholder: PLACEHOLDER_LISTINGS_PLUGIN
    javascript_search_file: listing-search.js
    default_css: true

default_css

default_css determines, whether the search JavaScript should also load the default styling for the search dialog and results. By default it is set to true, but you can set it to false if the theme you use does not work well with the style. You should then define your own custom style and include it on the search page. Also has some effect on the all listings page.

listings_file

listings_file is expected to contain the relative path to the Markdown file, where the listings should be written to. If the file does not exist, an error will be raised during the build process. The default value is empty.

placeholder

The value for placeholder will be searched in the file referenced by listings_file and be replaced with the list of all listings.

javascript_search_file

The JavaScript code for the search function will be written to this path. The default value is empty, meaning that neither the JSOn file nor the JavaScript are generated.

Changelog

Version 0.0.4

• Added styling for the search page and the option default_css to disable it.
• Fixed bug: URL for index pages starts with //

Version 0.0.3

• Added snippet search JavaScript and JSON file.
• Changed default for listings_file to empty string.

Version 0.0.2

• Fixed Unknown path being shown on with different themes (readthedocs and material)