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Pelican, a simple static blog generator in python
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Those days, I've wrote a little python application to fit my blogging needs.
I'm an occasional blogger, a vim lover, I like restructured text and DVCSes.
Pelican (for calepin) is just a simple tool to generate your blog as static
files, letting you using your editor of choice (vim!). It's easy to extend,
and has a template support.
I've made it to fit *my* needs. I hope it will fit yours, but maybe it wont, and
it have not be designed to feet everyone's needs.
Need an example ? You're looking at it ! This weblog is using pelican to be
generated, also for the atom feeds.
I've released it under AGPL, since I want all the modifications to be profitable
to all the users.
You can find a mercurial repository to fork at http://hg.lolnet.org/pelican/,
feel free to clone and hack it !
If you just want to get started, use your installer of choice (pip, easy_install, …)
And then have a look to the help (`pelican --help`)
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install pelican
Usage
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Here's a sample usage of pelican
.. code-block:: bash
$ pelican .
writing /home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/index.html
writing /home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/tags.html
writing /home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/categories.html
writing /home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/archives.html
writing /home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/category/python.html
writing
/home/alexis/projets/notmyidea.org/output/pelican-a-simple-static-blog-generator-in-python.html
Done !
You also can use the `--help` option for the command line to get more
informations
.. code-block:: bash
$pelican --help
usage: pelican [-h] [-t TEMPLATES] [-o OUTPUT] [-m MARKUP] [-s SETTINGS] [-b]
path
A tool to generate a static blog, with restructured text input files.
positional arguments:
path Path where to find the content files (default is
"content").
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t TEMPLATES, --templates-path TEMPLATES
Path where to find the templates. If not specified,
will uses the ones included with pelican.
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Where to output the generated files. If not specified,
a directory will be created, named "output" in the
current path.
-m MARKUP, --markup MARKUP
the markup language to use. Currently only
ReSTreucturedtext is available.
-s SETTINGS, --settings SETTINGS
the settings of the application. Default to None.
-b, --debug