static-web-pick

A tool that lets you build a static weblog cherry picking specific entries from an existing static weblog.

Why

Say you've been using static-web-archive as your blog platform and now have thousands of entries. You want to start another smaller blog that includes just a handful of those entries. Fortunately, static-web-archive keeps a JSON file with everything needed to create an entry in a directory, usually meta/.

With this tool, you can create a list of the entries you want in this second blog, then tell the tool to build a new site, complete with RSS, if you want it.

Installing

npm i -g static-web-pick --registry https://npm.pkg.github.com/jimkang

Usage

swpick <path to config file> <directory with meta files> <path to JSON list of ids>

Parameters

• path to config file: The static-web-archive configuration module containing options that will be passed to the static-web-archive constructor. Here is an example.
• directory with meta files: The directory containing files, each of which is a JSON dictionary containing a metadatum about a weblog entry. By default, static-web-archive stores these in the meta/ under the root of your archive directory. Example metadatum.
• path to JSON list of ids: This is a file containing a JSON array of the ids you want to be in your site. Example.

Testing

There aren't real tests, but you can run make try, then look in testbed/output. It should generate a weblog with three entries.