Gsssg is a very simple static site generator written in Go (golang).

Gsssg treats the first argument as a path. It reads all the .txt files in that directory, and outputs .html files to the same path. It overwrites existing .html files with the same name. If the -o flag is given with the path to a directory, output will be sent there. Gsssg also produces a contents.html, an alphabetized list of links to each .html file.

$ gsssg /home/me/blog/
$ gsssg -g '*.md' -o /tmp /home/me/blog/

If the user does not supply a path, Gsssg looks in the current directory.

For a complete list of command-line options:

$ gsssg -h

If the file page.tmpl exists in the target directory, Gsssg reads it as a Go template for format output. If the first line of an input file is a Markdown header, Gsssg uses that as the title of the page; otherwise, it uses the file name.

Gsssg sets the date of the page as the first line containing a date formatted like "Sat Dec 31 09:18:57 EST 2016" or "Sun Jan 1 07:56:01 EST 2017". This is the default format of the GNU date command.

For files named like 20171231.md or 20171231235959.md, Gsssg creates "forward" and "backward" links between files. It produces an archive.html page with a chronological list of pages. Gsssg produces an RSS feed for dated posts if the user specifies a site title, description, and URL as command line arguments.

Dependencies

Gsssg depends on the Blackfriday Markdown parser.

$ go get github.com/russross/blackfriday

Configuration and Publishing

Gsssg does not use a configuration file. It does not have a built-in "publish" function.

Use a simple shell script to configure Gsssg and publish, like:

#!/bin/sh
set -euf

title="My Blog"
desc="My blog posts awesome stuff!"
url="https://example.com/blog"
now=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S)
indir="$HOME"/repo/"$title"
outdir=/tmp/"$title"/"$now"
remotedir=/var/www/html/blog
server=example.com

mkdir -p "$outdir"

$HOME/bin/gsssg -o "$outdir" \
	-t "$indir"/templates \
	-g '.md' \
	-t "$title" \
	-d "$desc" \
	-u "$url" \
	"$indir"

ssh "$server" mkdir -p "$remotedir"/.trash
rsync -azq --delete --backup --backup-dir=.trash -e ssh "$outdir" "$server":"$remotedir"

Example

$ $GOPATH/bin/gsssg -debug -o /tmp -d 'My site is cool.' -t 'My Blog' -u 'https://example.com/blog' ./example/

License (2-Clause BSD License)

Copyright 2017 Paul Gorman

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