💎 Import remote JSON data into the data for a Jekyll site
bundle add jekyll-get-json
to add this to your site's Gemfile.plugins
listed in your _config.yml
file. For example:plugins:
- jekyll-get-json
Add a jekyll_get_json
section to your _config.yml
file. This section should be an array of objects containing data
and json
properties:
data
property specifies where in the site.data
you would like to put this data.json
property is the remote URL of the JSON file.To illustrate an example, assuming that you have a remote JSON file at https://example.com/data.json
containing this:
{
"bar": "Success!"
}
And you put the following into your _config.yml
file:
jekyll_get_json:
- data: foo
json: 'https://example.com/data.json'
Then in your Jekyll site you will be able to use:
{{ site.data.foo.bar }}
And you will see:
Success!
This plugin is basically a more limited version of jekyll-get, duplicated here purely for the purposes of making it a Ruby gem.