JSON Posts in Jekyll

While I don’t have a current use for it, I thought it would be cool to create a JSON API for Posts on this blog. Whatever I used had to work with Github Pages where my site is hosted, so using a gem is not an option.

After some searching I found a partial solution by digitaljhelms and used that idea of a file for Jekyll to process in order to generate the API.

Here is the code for my final solution, which is running at posts.json:

--- layout: null --- [ {% for post in site.posts %} { "slug":{{post.title | slugify}} "url":"{{site.url}}{{post.url}}", "title":"{{post.title}}", "date":,"{{post.date}}" "categories":[{% for categories in post.categories %}"{{categories}}"{% if forloop.rindex0 > 0 %}, {% endif %}{% endfor %}], "excerpt":"{{post.excerpt | strip_html}}" }{% if forloop.rindex0 > 0 %},{% endif %} {% endfor %} ]