#!/usr/bin/env python3 from markdown2 import markdown_path import os import fileinput import sys # change our cwd os.chdir("bin") blog = "../pages/blog/" print("this is going to take a while...") print("you might as well serve the site!") # order files by recency def get_recents(path): files = [path + f for f in os.listdir(blog) if f not in ["_index.md", "feed.xml"]] files.sort( key=lambda f: markdown_path(f, extras=["metadata"]).metadata["date"], reverse=True, ) return files def update_index(posts): path = "../pages/_index.md" with open(path, "r") as f: md = f.readlines() ruler = md.index("| :-- | --: |\n") for post, i in zip(posts, range(5)): md[ruler + i + 1] = post + "\n" with open(path, "w") as f: f.writelines(md) def update_blog(s): path = "../pages/blog/_index.md" s = s + "\n" with open(path) as f: tempf = f.readlines() if s in tempf: print("index has already been updated. quitting...") sys.exit() for l in fileinput.FileInput(path, inplace=1): if "--:" in l: l = l.replace(l, l + s) print(l, end=""), top_five = [] metas = [] lines = [] fnames = [] for i in range(5): top_five.append(get_recents(blog)[i]) metas.append(markdown_path(get_recents(blog)[i], extras=["metadata"]).metadata) fnames.append(os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(get_recents(blog)[i])[0])) for meta, fname in zip(metas, fnames): url = "/blog/" + fname new_line = f"| [{meta['title']}]({url}) | {meta['date']} |" lines.append(new_line) update_index(lines) update_blog(lines[0])