VuePress Plugin Feed

RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds generator plugin for VuePress 1.x

Install

$ npm install -D vuepress-plugin-feed

# or

$ yarn add -D vuepress-plugin-feed

Usage

Add vuepress-plugin-feed in your site or theme config file.

See official docs on using a plugin

// .vuepress/config.js
// or
// .vuepress/theme/index.js

// set your global feed options - override in page frontmatter `feed`
const feed_options = {
  canonical_base: 'https://webmasterish.com',
};

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    [ 'feed', feed_options ]
  ]
}

Page frontmatter

Page frontmatter.feed is optional. It can be used to override the defaults.

Check the Page class for more details.

---

title: Page Title

feed:
  enable: true
  title: Title used in feed
  description: Description used in feed
  image: /public/image.png
  author:
    -
      name: Author
      email: author@doamin.tld
      link: http://doamin.tld
  contributor:
    -
      name: Contributor
      email: contributor@doamin.tld
      link: http://doamin.tld

---

How pages are added as feed items

A page is auto added as a feed item if one the following conditions is met:

• frontmatter.feed.enable === true
• frontmatter.type === 'post'
• it resides in whatever the posts_directories are set to (the defaults are blog and _posts)

if you need to exclude a particular page that meets one of the conditions above, you can use frontmatter.feed.enable === false.

Details on how pages are filtered can be found in PLUGIN.is_feed_page().

The PLUGIN.is_feed_page() function is the default way of filtering the pages, you can override it using is_feed_page option (see Options section below).

Options

See Plugin Option API official docs

Default options

You can override default options in 2 ways:

1. Global plugin options set in .vuepress/config.js or .vuepress/theme/index.js as described in Usage
2. Individual page/post frontmatter as shown in Page frontmatter

const {
  title,
  description
} = context.getSiteData ? context.getSiteData() : context;

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Feed class options
// @see: https://github.com/jpmonette/feed#example

const feed_options = {

  title,
  description,
  generator: PLUGIN.homepage,

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // the following are auto populated in PLUGIN.get_options()
  // if they are not set as options
  /*
  id,
  link,
  feedLinks,
  */

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // ref:
  /*
  title: "Feed Title",
  description: "This is my personal feed!",
  id: "http://example.com/",
  link: "http://example.com/",
  image: "http://example.com/image.png",
  favicon: "http://example.com/favicon.ico",
  copyright: "All rights reserved 2013, John Doe",
  updated: new Date(2013, 6, 14), // optional, default = today
  generator: "awesome", // optional, default = 'Feed for Node.js'
  feedLinks: {
    json: "https://example.com/json",
    atom: "https://example.com/atom"
  },
  author: {
    name: "John Doe",
    email: "johndoe@example.com",
    link: "https://example.com/johndoe"
  }
  */

};

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

const default_options = {

  // required; it can also be used as enable/disable

  canonical_base: '',

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // Feed class options - @see: https://github.com/jpmonette/feed#example
  // optional - auto-populated based on context.getSiteData()

  feed_options,

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // @notes:
  // property name is also the name of the jpmonette/feed package function

  feeds: {

    rss2: {
      enable    : true,
      file_name : 'rss.xml',
      head_link : {
        enable: true,
        type  : 'application/rss+xml',
        title : '%%site_title%% RSS Feed',
      }
    },

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    atom1: {
      enable    : true,
      file_name : 'feed.atom',
      head_link : {
        enable: true,
        type  : 'application/atom+xml',
        title : '%%site_title%% Atom Feed',
      }
    },

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    json1: {
      enable    : true,
      file_name : 'feed.json',
      head_link : {
        enable: true,
        type  : 'application/json',
        title : '%%site_title%% JSON Feed',
      }
    },

  },

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // page/post description sources

  // order of what gets the highest priority:
  //
  // 1. frontmatter
  // 2. page excerpt
  // 3. content markdown paragraph
  // 4. content regular html <p>

  description_sources: [

    'frontmatter',
    'excerpt',

    // markdown paragraph regex
    // @todo: needs work
    //
    /^((?:(?!^#)(?!^\-|\+)(?!^[0-9]+\.)(?!^!\[.*?\]\((.*?)\))(?!^\[\[.*?\]\])(?!^\{\{.*?\}\})[^\n]|\n(?! *\n))+)(?:\n *)+\n/gim,
    //
    // this excludes blockquotes using `(?!^>)`
    ///^((?:(?!^#)(?!^\-|\+)(?!^[0-9]+\.)(?!^!\[.*?\]\((.*?)\))(?!^>)(?!^\[\[.*?\]\])(?!^\{\{.*?\}\})[^\n]|\n(?! *\n))+)(?:\n *)+\n/gim,

    // html paragraph regex
    /<p(?:.*?)>(.*?)<\/p>/i,

  ],

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // page/post image sources

  // order of what gets the highest priority:
  //
  // 1. frontmatter
  // 2. content markdown image such as `![alt text](http://url)`
  // 3. content regular html img

  image_sources: [

    'frontmatter',

    /!\[.*?\]\((.*?)\)/i,         // markdown image regex
    /<img.*?src=['"](.*?)['"]/i,  // html image regex

  ],

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // pages in current directories will be auto added as feed
  // unless they are disabled using their frontmatter
  // this option is used by the default is_feed_page function

  posts_directories: ['/blog/', '/_posts/'],

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // function to check if the page is to be used in a feed item

  is_feed_page: PLUGIN.is_feed_page, // function

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  count: 20,

  // optional sorting function for the entries. 
  // Gets the array entries as the input, expects the sorted array
  // as its output.
  // e.g.:   sort:  entries => _.reverse( _.sortBy( entries, 'date' ) ),
  // Don't forget to do a `const _ = require('lodash');` to be able to use `_`!

  sort: entries => entries,

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // supported - use in config as needed

  // category
  // contributor

};

Reference

• VuePress official plugin docs
• VuePress official Front Matter
• jpmonette/feed
• RSS 2.0 specificatiion
• Atom feed
• JSON feed

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License

MIT © webmasterish