jekyll_preview_tag

jekyll_preview_tag

A little Jekyll plugin to generate previews of linked articles/sites.

Jekyll Preview Tag

This plugin uses nokogiri and ruby-readability to create previews and a locally cached snippets.

Required Gems/Libraries: nokogiri, open-uri, ruby-readability, digest

Usage:

  1. Generate a new folder called "_cache" in your Jekyll directory. This will hold all linked snippets, so you don't need to regenerate them on every regeneration of your site.

  2. Use the following link syntax:

    {% preview http://example.com/some-article.html %}

  3. In case we can't fetch the Title from a linksource, you can set it manually:

    {% preview "Some Article" http://example.com/some-article.html %}

Feel free to send a pull-request!

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