# http://stackoverflow.com/a/27850727/733677 require 'open-uri' require 'rss' require 'simple-rss' module Jekyll # Runs during jekyll build class RssFeedCollector < Generator safe true priority :high def generate(site) rss_items = SimpleRSS.parse open('https://blog.bigchaindb.com/feed/') # Create a new on-the-fly Jekyll collection called "articles" jekyll_items = Jekyll::Collection.new(site, 'articles') site.collections['articles'] = jekyll_items # Add fake virtual documents to the collection rss_items.items.each do |item| title = item.title link = item.link # Medium hack: get first image in content, then get smaller image size image = item.content_encoded[/img.*?src="(.*?)"/i,1].gsub(/max\/(.*)\//, "max/500/") path = '_articles/' + title.to_s.gsub(':','_') + '.md' path = site.in_source_dir(path) doc = Jekyll::Document.new(path, site: site, collection: jekyll_items) doc.data['title'] = title doc.data['link'] = link doc.data['image'] = image jekyll_items.docs << doc end rescue puts "Could not parse blog feed. Are you offline?" end end end