[kwlug-disc] Static site generators in Python

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

Paul,

Unfortunately, I have never used a Python SSG so I cannot give you any
direct report from experience.

My first suggestion is, of course, could come to the dark side, and pick
Ruby :) (Middleman or Jekyll)


But if you do not want to do that, I would suggest trying Pelican.
https://blog.getpelican.com/
https://www.staticgen.com/pelican

I have never used it, but I have seen the name before and it has a bunch
of good markers:
* AGPLv3
* seems to have recent activity in the repo
* Github starts indicates a reasonable level of attention
* uses the Jinja2 template, instead of something weird and custom
* looks like it just uses a repo and files
* has a plugin system
  - https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins

Seems like it would be a good bet to try out.

Andrew



On 2019-06-14 7:34 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> Yes, there are a lot of them. That is kind of the problem. I would
> prefer not having to test tens of candidates to find something that is
> good enough. 
> 
> This is for a new site with only a few pages. 
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:16:16AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> Here is a comparison of all the static site generators
>> https://www.staticgen.com/
>>
>> Features vary. Some require content to be in flat files.
>> Most have no integrated CMS. So there is another list of those
>> https://headlesscms.org/
>>
>> Is this an existing site? You can move it to your laptop or behind a
>> firewall, and then
>> use wget to generate an HTML copy of it, then move that to where it can be
>> served
>> statically.
>>
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