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website/generate-blog.bash

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#!/bin/bash
##
# Generate html page with blog article excerpts from ./posts.txt. Post file names should
# be added to ./posts.txt in the exact order that they are supposed to appear on the blog
# page.
# Check if required executables can be found
if ! type readlink dirname html2text mv cat cksum base64; then
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echo 'One or more required executables are not present. Generation cancelled' >&2
exit 1
fi
# Determine script directory (requires GNU readlink)
here="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")"
printf 'Changing directory: '
pushd "$here" || exit $?
posts_file="$here/posts.txt"
if ! [[ -f "$posts_file" ]]; then
printf 'Posts file "%s" not found. Generation cancelled.\n' "$posts_file" >&2
exit 1
fi
escape-html() {
sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g; s/'"'"'/\&#39;/g'
}
html-to-text() {
html2text -nobs -style compact "$@"
}
print-blog-html-top() {
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echo '<html>
<head>
<title>Blog</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<style type="text/css">
h2 a {
color: #5b4636;
text-decoration: none;
}
h2 a:visited {
color: #5b4636;
text-decoration: none;
}
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</style>
<body>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: horizontal;">
<a href="index.html">Home</a>
<span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">|</span>
<a href="feed.xml">RSS Feed</a>
</div>
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<h1>Blog</h1>
'
}
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print-blog-html-bottom() {
echo ' </body>
</html>'
}
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# Note: pubDate and lastBuildDate are both set to the current time.
print-blog-rss-top() {
cat <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Hugot Blog</title>
<link>https://hugot.nl/blog.html</link>
<description>Hugo's personal blog</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>$(date)</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>$(date)</lastBuildDate>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<generator>Hugo's Custom Bash Script</generator>
<managingEditor>social@hugot.nl</managingEditor>
<webMaster>infra@hugot.nl</webMaster>
EOF
}
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print-blog-rss-bottom() {
echo '</channel>
</rss>'
}
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el() {
format_string="$1"
shift
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printf "<$format_string>" "$@"
}
el-close() {
echo "</$1>"
}
el-enclose() {
element_name="$1"
shift
printf '%s' "<$element_name>"
printf '%s' "$@"
printf '%s' "</$element_name>"
}
site_url="https://hugot.nl"
blog_html="$here/blog.html"
new_html="$blog_html.new"
blog_rss="$here/feed.xml"
new_rss="$blog_rss.new"
print-blog-html-top > "$new_html"
print-blog-rss-top > "$new_rss"
while read -r post_html; do
# Convert the post's html to text to make it easier to use the blog's text
text="$(html-to-text "$post_html" | escape-html)" || exit $?
# The title should be on the 2nd line of text, right after the link to the
# homepage. This is a bit inflexible but it will do for now.
title="$(tail -n +3 <<<"$text" | head -n 1 | tr -d '*')" || exit $?
# Use the first 5 lines after the title as post excerpt.
excerpt="$(tail -n +4 <<<"$text" | head -n 5)" || exit $?
# Escape the post html file name to safely use it in the generated html.
href="$(escape-html <<<"$post_html")" || exit $?
post_dir="$(dirname "$post_html")" || exit $?
pubdate_file="$post_dir/publish_date.txt"
# Determine a publishing date for the post
if [[ -f "$pubdate_file" ]]; then
read -r pubdate < "$pubdate_file"
else
pubdate="$(date)"
echo "$pubdate" > "$pubdate_file"
fi
{
el div
printf '<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="%s">%s</a></h2>' "$href" "$title"
printf '<i style="font-size: 0.8em;">%s</i>' "$pubdate"
el 'p style="margin-top: 0.5em;"'
printf '%s ... <a href="%s">Continue reading</a>' "$excerpt" "$href"
el-close p
el-close div
el hr
} >> "$new_html"
{
el item
el-enclose title "$title"
el-enclose link "$site_url/$href"
el-enclose description "$excerpt"
el-enclose pubDate "$pubdate"
echo "<guid isPermaLink=\"false\">$title$(base64 <(cksum <<<"$text"))</guid>"
el-close item
} >> "$new_rss"
done < "$posts_file"
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print-blog-html-bottom >> "$new_html"
print-blog-rss-bottom >> "$new_rss"
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mv -v "$new_html" "$blog_html" || exit $?
mv -v "$new_rss" "$blog_rss" || exit $?
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echo 'SUCCESS!'