pages 0.3

Static site generator

Pages is a command line static site generator.

Piglet templates are used by default, but Jinja2, Chameleon, Genshi or Kajiki can all be used supported, and content can be read from reStructuredText, markdown or JSON data files.

Quick start

To get up and running with the default configuration of Piglet + reStructuredText:

pip install pages

pages --template layout.html --output build/ src/

For markdown, or to use another templating system, install the relevant extras hook, eg:

pip install pages[markdown,jinja2]

Examples

Select individual files to render:

pages --template layout.html -p1 --output=build/ src/index.md src/page1.md

Select a different template for a file:

pages --template layout.html -p1 --output=build/ src/ src/stats.json:report.html

Read the list of files to render from stdin:

find src/ -type f -name \*md | pages --template layout.html -p1 --output=build/

Select a different templating system:

pages --render-with jinja2 --template layout.html --output=build/ src/

Load additional data into the template context:

# Inline JSON
pages --template layout.html --context '{"foo": "bar"}' src/

# a JSON file
pages --template layout.html --context data.json  src/

# JSON loaded from a remote API
pages --template layout.html --context <(curl -s 'wttr.in/?format=j1') src/

# A python module
pages --template layout.html --context myproject.somemodule:avariable src/

# A python script
pages --template layout.html --context somevars.py src/

Path stripping

If you supply a directory to pages, it will render all the files inside that directory, stripping off the directory name. For example given a file at src/index.rst, this:

pages -t layout.html -o build/ src/

will produce this:

build/index.html

It will not strip the prefix of individually named files, so this:

pages -t layout.html -o build/ src/index.rst

will produce this:

build/src/index.html

Use -p <n>/--strip <n> to tell pages to remove one or more levels of path prefix. -p 1 will strip off one level of prefix, higher values will strip off more. -p 0 will leave the path unmodified.

Note that -p/--strip is only used for sources listed by full path names.

Rendering markdown

Markdown sources are processed using Python-Markdown with the “extra” and “meta” extensions loaded.

The template will be called with the following context variables:

{
    "html": ...,  # Content rendered as HTML
    "meta": ...,  # Parsed metadata
}

Rendering reStructuredText

reStructuredText sources make the following context variables available to the template:

{
  "title": ...              # Document title
  "meta": ...               # Key-value pairs from top level field lists
  "html": ...               # Rendered html body (incl. the title heading)
  "html_without_title": ... # As above, but without the title heading
  "parts": ...              # Parts dict as returned by the docutils writer
}