jekyll-get-data-json

💎 Import remote JSON data into the data for a Jekyll site

This version uses the _data folder so that you can more freely manage without having to restart jekyll

Installation

1. Use bundle add jekyll-get-data-json to add this to your site's Gemfile.
2. Add this plugin to the plugins listed in your _config.yml file. For example:

   plugins:
     - jekyll-get-data-json
   

   Or you can download the converter.rb file and put it in the _plugins . folder

   Usage

Create a getjson.yml file inside your _data folder. This section should be an object array containing the data and json properties:

• The data property specifies where in the site.data you would like to put this data.
• The 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 getjson.yml file:

  - 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!

Credit

This plugin is basically a more limited version of jekyll-get, duplicated here purely for the purposes of making it a Ruby gem.

This plugin is basically another version of jekyll-get-json, duplicated here purely for better usage purposes.