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A generator for Pelican allowing flexible referencing of static content

Project description

A plugin for Pelican that adds automatic resolution of static files.

While the original static generator included in Pelican requires the hardcoding of static paths in the configuration file, pelican-autostatic provides facilities to dinamically add static content independent of its location, just by referencing it.

Install

To install the library, you can use pip

$ pip install pelican-autostatic

Usage

  1. Update pelicanconf.py:

    1. Add autostatic to PLUGINS.

      You should add it before any metadata-affecting plugins.

      PLUGINS = ['autostatic', ...]
  2. Reference static content in your Markdown/rST metadata/text by using the {static} substitution:

    {static url/to/content key1=val1 key2="val 2" ...}

    or:

    {static "url/to/content/with spaces" key1=val1 key2="val 2" ...}

    Example (in markdown):

    [Markdown example file]({static file/example.zip key1=val1 key2="val 2" ...})

    You can also use | instead of spaces if you wish (for use with Markdown inline image syntax which doesn’t accept spaces for the url for instance):

    ![Markdown example image]({static|file/example.png|key1=val1} "Image title")
  3. An index of these references will be automatically built and those files will be copied to the output folder preserving the path structure:

    • If using a relative path, the file will be copied to the same path relative to the directory where the .html file is output.

    • If using an absolute path, the file is copied to that same path relative to the base output folder (e.g: output).

Options

Autostatic references can have a number of options after the url for the content. This allows modifications to the content being referenced.

Core options

  • output: Allows changing the output path (and the url) of the file in the generated .html.

    Example:

    {static /images/example.png output=/images/example_2.png}

    Will copy content/images/example.png to output/images/example_2.png and the reference will be replaced by $SITEURL/images/example_2.png.

  • url: Allows changing the url of the file in the generated .html without changing the output path.

    Example:

    {static /images/example.png url=/images/example_2.png}

    Will copy content/images/example.png to output/images/example.png and the reference will be replaced by $SITEURL/images/example_2.png.

Third-party options

  • pelican-advthumbnailer adds a thumb option that changes the url of the static image reference so that a thumbnail of that image is generated and linked and not the image itself.

Configuration

You can set the following options in your pelicanconf.py:

  • AUTOSTATIC_REFERENCE_PATTERN (String) - Change the regex of the static reference pattern. It needs to have the following groups:

    • path - This should have the path used in the reference.

    • extra - This should have the key1=val1 key2="val 2" ... string.

    For reference, the default pattern is:

    r"""{static(?:\s+|\|)((?:"|')?)(?P<path>[^\1=]+?)\1(?:(?:\s+|\|)(?P<extra>.*))?\s*}"""
  • AUTOSTATIC_USE_PELICANLIKE_REF (Boolean) - Activate the usage of a different format of the static reference that is similar to Pelican’s {filename} syntax:

    ![Markdown example image]({static|key1=val1}images/example.png "Image title")

    NOTE: I haven’t actually benchmarked this but this mechanism (the same used by Pelican with {filename}) should be slightly slower than the default one used in this plugin. This is because the {filename} mechanism does matching over all html tags which will surely result in a lot of backtracks on a HTML document.

Extending

Available signals

  • autostatic_path_found: Signalled when a new autostatic reference is found.

    Parameters:

    • sender: Always None

    • autostatic_path: Object containing:

      • source: Read-only property containing source path of reference.

      • destination: Read/write property containing destination of referenced file.

      • original_destination: Read-only property containing default destination of referenced file.

      • url: Read/write property containing url to be substituted for the reference.

      • original_url: Read-only property containing default url to be substituted for the reference.

      • extra: Dictionary containing the options specified in addition to the path. Can be possibly empty.

pelican-advthumbnailer contains an example usage of this signal.

Example

For a working example check my site and my site’s source code.

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