Pelican Gist Tag

Pelican Gist Tag is a library to make it easy to GitHub Gists in your Pelican blogs.

Installation

To install pelican-gist, simply:

$ pip install pelican-gist

Then add a bit of code to your blog configuration:

PLUGINS = [
    # ...
    'pelican_gist',
    # ...
]

Usage

In your articles, just add lines to your posts that look like:

[gist:id=3254906,file=brew-update-notifier.sh]

This will tell the plugin to insert gist id 3254906 and choose the file brew-update-notifier.sh into your post. The resulting HTML will look like:

<div class="gist">
    <script src='https://gist.github.com/3254906.js?file=brew-update-notifier.sh'></script>
    <noscript>
        <pre><code>#!/bin/bash ...</code></pre>
    </noscript>
</div>

If your gist has only a single file, you can also specify the gist like so:

[gist:id=3254906]

Notice it is using the id only. The resulting HTML will look like:

<div class="gist">
    <script src='https://gist.github.com/3254906.js'></script>
    <noscript>
        <pre><code>#!/bin/bash ...</code></pre>
    </noscript>
</div>

If a file type is specified, uses pygment to highlight the noscript version of the code:

[gist:id=3254906,file=brew-update-notifier.sh,filetype=bash]

There is also support for private gists where they have the gist id that looks like e34db4c532a6cfa1f711.

Settings

GIST_CACHE_ENABLED - Specifies whether to cache the gist on disk or not. Default is True. (Optional) GIST_PYGMENTS_STYLE - Style used by pygments for syntax highlighting. Possible values are the strings from pygments.styles.get_all_styles(). Default is 'default'. (Optional) GIST_PYGMENTS_LINENUM - Defines if pygments should add line numbers to the rendered HTML. Default is False. (Optional)

Testing

Install the necessary requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt. Once those are installed, you can run the tests with: py.test. So the whole workflow looks like:

$ pip install -r requrements.txt
Successfully installed pytest requests mock py
Cleaning up...
$ py.test
======================== test session starts =========================
platform darwin -- Python 2.7.6 -- pytest-2.5.1
collected 5 items

pelican_gist/test_plugin.py .....

====================== 5 passed in 0.11 seconds ======================

Authors

See contributors on GitHub.

Changelog

0.3.4 - Fix regex to support filetype (credit [@andrlik](https://github.com/andrlik))
0.3.3 - Support gists with UTF-8 characters
0.3.2 - Added universal wheel support
0.3.1 - Fixed an issue with Python 3 and fetching gist content
0.3.0 - Added Python 3 support