Metalsmith Medium data

Metalsmith plugin to fetch latest user post data from medium.com as metadata for template usage.

Installation

$ npm install metalsmith-medium-data

Usage

Add an metalsmith-medium-data entry in metalsmith.json or pass the plugin to metalsmith.use() in a JavaScript file.

metalsmith.json

{
    "plugins": {
        "metalsmith-medium-data": {
            "username": "huntie"
        }
    }
}

JavaScript file

import medium from 'metalsmith-medium-data';

metalsmith.use(medium({
    username: 'huntie'
});

The plugin will add a new metadata object on build under the key medium for use in templates.

Property	Type	Description
medium.user	Object	The user profile data.
medium.posts	Array	The collection of most recent user posts.

Options

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
username	String	Yes	null	The Medium account user from which to fetch posts.
key	String	No	"medium"	The name of the key to set in metadata.
limit	Number	No	10	The maximum number of posts to include.

Contributing

If you discover a problem or have a feature request, please create an issue or feel free to fork this repository and make improvements.