Pelican Github Projects

Embed a list of your public GitHub projects in your pages.

Installation

To install pelican-githubprojects, simply install it from PyPI:

$ pip install pelican-githubprojects

Configuration

Enable the plugin in your pelicanconf.py

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

Add a setting with your GitHub username.

GITHUB_USER = 'kura'

Optionally specify the order in which projects appear. The choices for each parameter are provided at https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-user-repositories.

GITHUB_USER_TYPE = "owner"
GITHUB_SORT_BY = "created"
GITHUB_DIRECTION = "desc"

Available data

name:	The name of your project.
language:	The language your project is written in, information on how GitHub detects languages is available here. It is GitHub that detects the language, not this plugin. So please, no issues about that.
description:	The description of your project (as set on GitHub.)
homepage:	The homepage of your project (as set on GitHub.)
github_url:	The web page URL of your project on GitHub (not the GIT or API URL.)
stars:	Number of stars for the project.
size:	Size of the project, in kilobytes.
fork:	Whether the project is forked from another project.
forks:	Number of forks of the project.
private:	Whether the repository is private.
created:	Time of creation of the repository as a string.
updated:	Time of last update of the repository as a string.
id:	Repository ID.

Usage

In your templates you will be able to iterate over the github_projects variable, as below.

{% if GITHUB_USER %}
    <h1>Projects</h1>
    {% for project in github_projects %}
        <h2>{{ project.name }} <sup>({{ project.language }})</sup></h2>
        {% if project.description %}<p>{{ project.description }}</p>{% endif %}
        <p>
            {% if project.homepage %}<a href="{{ project.homepage }}">Homepage</a>{% endif %}
            <a href="{{ project.github_url }}">GitHub</a>
        </p>
    {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

License

MIT license.