Metalsmith Snippet

A Metalsmith plugin for extracting snippets from files.

Installation

npm install metalsmith-snippet --save

Usage

Metalsmith Snippets adds a snippet property to the metadata of every HTML file, when it hasn't already been set.

CLI

Install via npm and then add metalsmith-snippet to your metalsmith.json:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-snippet": {
      "maxLength": 300
    }
  }
}

JavaScript

var snippet = require('metalsmith-snippet')
 
metalsmith.use(snippet({
  stop: ['<span class="more">']
}))

Templates

You can define a custom snippet in your file when you want to provide something more advanced than the auto-generated snippet.

---
title: Example Article
snippet: This is a snippet about my article.
---

Options

• maxLength The number of characters to keep the snippet within (default: Infinity)
• suffix The suffix to append to the snippet when the content is trimmed (default: …)
• stop A string or array of strings to search for and trim between (default: null)
• stripHtml Remove all HTML elements from the snippet (default: true)
• stripPre Strip the <pre> element from snippet calculation (default: true)

License

MIT