A simple plugin for Jekyll that makes a call to the GitHub GraphQL API v4 to collect metadata for a user's gists and store it in a json file (gists-meta-data.json) in the Jekyll site data_dir.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-gists-meta', group: :jekyll-plugins

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-gists-meta

Then add the following to your site's _config.yml:

plugins:
  - jekyll-gists-meta

Because the GitHub GraphQL API requires an authorization token for access, you will need to ensure that the enviroment variable JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN is set, i.e.

JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN=<token string here>

in order for the query to work and make the metadata available.

By default the plugin will attempt to source a GitHub user login via the github-metadata plugin if installed. A user login may alternately be specified in the _config.yml file as gists_user. Any value here will supersede any value sourced from github-metadata.

The plugin will run when the server is started and create a JSON data file, gists-meta-data.json, of select GitHub metadata fields for a user's gists in the site's data directory, which is ./_data by default. Gists appear in the file in descending order by creation date. The plugin overwrites any existing file of the same name.

Once the datafile is populated, you may access its contents within Jekyll using Liquid. For example, to list all gists in the file and linkify them:

{% if site.data.gists-meta-data %}
  <section>
    <h2>Gists</h2>
    <ul>
      {% for myedge in site.data.gists-meta-data.data.user.gists.edges %}
        <li>
          <a href="https://gist.github.com/{{ myedge.node.name }}">{{ myedge.node.description }}</a>
        </li>
      {% endfor %}
    </ul>
  </section>
{% endif %}

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jamesluberda/jekyll-gists-meta. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Jekyll::Gists::Meta project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.