package soupault

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Static website generator based on HTML rewriting

Install

Dune Dependency

Authors

Maintainers

Sources

1.10.0.zip
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Description

A website generator that works with page element tree rather than text and allows you to manipulate pages and retrieve metadata from existing HTML using arbitrary CSS selectors.

Built-in functionality includes setting page title, generating ToC and footnotes, inserting files/HTML snippets or output of external programs into pages etc.

Metadata extracted from pages can be rendered using Mustache templates or exported to JSON and processed with an external script.

Extensible with Lua (2.5) plugins. Can also be used as an HTML processor for existing pages.

Published: 24 Mar 2020

README

soupault

Soupault is an HTML manipulation tool. It can be any of:

  • static site generator

  • HTML processor

  • metadata extractor

or all of them at the same time.

It builds on the idea that HTML is a machine-readable format.

Client-side JavaScript has always been used to manipulate pages in-browser. For manipulating pages on disk, people traditionally used template processors. Soupault can parse an HTML page into an element tree, manipulate elements, and save the result to disk.

Web scrapers have been used for extracting data from someone else's pages. Microformats have been used to let other people know what to extract. For their own pages, people usually used "front matter". Soupault allows you to define your own "microformats" on the fly. For example, automatically use the first <h1>, or <h1 id="title"> for the page <title>. You can define your own fields based on CSS selectors and export the index to JSON, then make a HTML page with a blog archive or an RSS/Atom/JSONFeed from it.

Static site generators have been either easily extensible but written in interpreted languages or shipped as static binaries but self-contained. Soupault is an easy to install static binary, but it embeds a Lua interpreter that has access to the page element tree. Much like the DOM API for JS, but for Lua.

It's also friendly to existing websites. Clean URLs are optional. Assembling pages from a template and a body is also optional: if you page has an <html> element, it's excluded from the assembly stage. You can disable "templating", or mix unique and templated pages.

Soupault is named after the French dadaist and surrealist writer Philippe Soupault because it's based on the lambdasoup library.

Visit https://soupault.neocities.org for details.

For support and discussion, write a message to the mailing list.

Installation

Pre-built binaries for Linux, Windows, and mac OS are available from the website and from Github releases.

You can verify the binaries using this signify/minisign key: RWRfW+gkhk/+iA7dOUtTio6G6KeJCiAEp4Zfozw7eqv2shN90+5z20Cy.

You can also install the latest stable releases from OPAM:

opam install soupault

Finally, you can build the last source with:

opam pin add git+https://github.com/dmbaturin/soupault

Contributing

Bug reports and patches are always welcome. Feature requests and new features are also welcome, but please consider discussing them with the maintainer first.

You can submit patches either as Github pull requests or send them to the Sourcehut mailing list.

Dependencies (17)

  1. lua-ml >= "0.9.1"
  2. tsort < "2.0.0"
  3. mustache < "3.2.0"
  4. spelll >= "0.3"
  5. calendar >= "2.00"
  6. stringext
  7. containers
  8. ezjsonm
  9. re >= "1.7.2"
  10. fmt
  11. logs
  12. fileutils
  13. toml < "6.0"
  14. markup >= "0.8.2"
  15. lambdasoup = "0.7.0"
  16. dune >= "2.0.0"
  17. ocaml >= "4.08"

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