Your Kickstarter pledges in a Jekyll site
Posted on February 27, 2016 • 2 min read • 244 wordsFor our family website I wanted to create a page that contained all my pledges on Kickstarter. Since I couldn’t find the right plugin for Jekyll I created…
For our family website I wanted to create a page that contained all my pledges on Kickstarter.
Since I couldn’t find the right plugin for Jekyll I created it myself.
It was my first try with Ruby, so perhaps some things aren’t as good as they can be. If you spot things like that, please let me know.
What it does
The plugin retrieves the information from Kickstarter, including corresponding images. The generated html looks like this:
Go to famelsinga.nl to check out the resulting page.
Styling
If you want to style the output you can use the following classes in CSS:
| div | purpose |
|---|---|
| kickstartcontainer | the DIV that contains all of the generated Kickstarter information |
| kickstart | the DIV containing the project |
| kickstartimg | for styling the div that contains the image |
| kickstarttext | If you want to style the text you can use this class |
The Kickstarter plugin
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
module Jekyll
class Kickstarter < Liquid::Tag
def initialize(tag_name, text, tokens)
super
@text = text
end
def render(context)
encoded_url=URI.encode("https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/" << @text)
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(encoded_url))
projects=page.css('div.project-card-mini-wrap')
tmp=projects.length-1
a="<div class="kickstartcontainer">"
(0..tmp).each do |count|
a << "<div class="kickstart"><div class="kickstartimg"><a target='blank' href='https://kickstarter.com" << projects[count].css('a')[0]['href'] << "'><img src=""
a << projects[count].css('a').css('img')[0]['src']
a << "" /></a></div>"
a << "<div class="kickstarttext">"
a << "<a target='blank' href='https://kickstarter.com" << projects[count].css('a')[0]['href'] << "'><b>" << projects[count].css('div.project_name.h5.bold')[0].text.strip << "</b></a>"
a << "<p>" << projects[count].css('a').css('p').text << "</p>"
a << "</div>"
a << "</div>"
end
a << "</div>"
"#{a}"
end
end
end
Liquid::Template.register_tag('kickstarter', Jekyll::Kickstarter)
