Das Lab Website

Static Jekyll site for daslab.stanford.edu.

Local development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
# open http://localhost:4000/

Editing content

Lab members can update content directly through the GitHub web UI — no command line needed:

• People: edit a file in _people/
• Alumni: edit a file in _alumni/
• News: add a file to _news/ (filename: YYYY-MM-DD-short-title.md)
• Publications: edit a file in _publications/

Each entry is a small markdown file with a frontmatter block at the top — copy an existing entry as a template. Save the change and the site rebuilds in ~30 seconds.

Hosting

Deployed via GitHub Pages, built by the workflow at .github/workflows/pages.yml. Currently live at:

https://daslab.github.io/

DNS cutover to daslab.stanford.edu (when ready)

Two steps, in order:

1. Update DNS at Stanford. Have Stanford IT change the CNAME (or A/AAAA records) for daslab.stanford.edu to point at GitHub Pages. The four GitHub Pages IPs for apex domains are: 185.199.108.153, 185.199.109.153, 185.199.110.153, 185.199.111.153. For a CNAME, point at daslab.github.io.
2. Add a CNAME file to this repo containing exactly daslab.stanford.edu and push. GitHub will detect it and provision a Let's Encrypt cert automatically (give it a few minutes after DNS propagates).

Until DNS resolves to GitHub Pages, leave the CNAME file out — committing it early will make GitHub Pages redirect the staging URL to daslab.stanford.edu, which still points at AWS, breaking the preview.

Re-running the content scraper

The current site's content was migrated by tools/scrape_content.py from HTML in _scrape/. To refresh from the live AWS site (e.g., after a CMS update):

cd _scrape
for p in / /research/ /news/ /people/ /publications/ /resources/ /contact/; do
  curl -sL "https://daslab.stanford.edu$p" -o "$(echo "$p" | sed 's:/:_:g').html"
done
cd ..
python3 tools/scrape_content.py

Note: this overwrites everything in _people/, _alumni/, _publications/, _news/. Don't run it after lab members have hand-edited content unless you're prepared to re-merge.