Metalsmith Medium data

Metalsmith plugin to fetch latest user post data from medium.com as metadata for template usage.

Installation

$ npm install metalsmith-medium-data

Usage

Add an metalsmith-medium-data entry in metalsmith.json or pass the plugin to metalsmith.use() in a JavaScript file.

metalsmith.json

{
    "plugins": {
        "metalsmith-medium-data": {
            "username": "huntie"
        }
    }
}

JavaScript file

import medium from 'metalsmith-medium-data';

metalsmith.use(medium({
    username: 'huntie'
});

The plugin will add a new metadata object on build under the key medium for use in templates.

| Property | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | medium.user | Object | The user profile data. | | medium.posts | Array | The collection of most recent user posts. |

Options

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | username | String | Yes | null | The Medium account user from which to fetch posts. | | key | String | No | "medium" | The name of the key to set in metadata. | | limit | Number | No | 10 | The maximum number of posts to include. |

Contributing

If you discover a problem or have a feature request, please create an issue or feel free to fork this repository and make improvements.