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metalsmith-feed-atom

A metalsmith plugin to generate Atom feed for a collection. If you're looking for RSS standard instead of Atom, take a look on metalsmith-feed plugin.

Requires metalsmith-collections plugin to work.

Installation

Install it via NPM:

$ npm install metalsmith-feed-atom

Usage

const metalsmith = require('metalsmith');
const collections = require('metalsmith-collections');
const atomfeed = require('metalsmith-feed-atom');

metalsmith('working/dir')
  .use(collections({articles: '*.html'}))
  .use(atomfeed({collection: 'articles'})) // make sure it comes after collections

Options

`collection`

Type: String (Required)
Name of the configured metalsmith-collection to build the feed from.

`limit`

Type: Number (Optional)
Maximum number of files to show in the feed. Defaults to 10.

`destination`

Type: String (Optional)
File path to write the rendered XML feed. Defaults to 'index.xml'.

`metadata`

Type: Object (Optional)
Metadata containing important information about your feed. Despite it isn't a required option, you must provide it in order to generate a valid Atom feed.

metadata.title string required: Title of your site/feed.
metadata.subtitle string optional: Subtitle of your site/feed.
metadata.url string required: Url of your site. This is also used as base url to produce files (feed entries) urls.
metadata.updated datetime optional: Last time your feed was updated. Defaults to the moment you generate it.

Files must have path metadata (perhaps from metalsmith-permalinks) in order to have its links outputted in the generated XML file.

Contributing

Fork this repo, install the dependecies, run the tests, submit a pull request.

$ cd metalsmith-feed-atom
$ npm install
$ grunt test

No grunt? No problem

You can run any grunt task just with npm scripts: npm run grunt -- <taskname>. Same as grunt test:

$ npm run grunt -- test

Automated workflow

You can keep the tests running automaticaly every time you make any change to the code with dev workflow:

$ grunt dev
$ npm run grunt -- dev

Always implement tests for whatever you're adding to the project. Thanks!