A sample blog page that demonstrates the accessing of github meta data.

What does Github-MetaData do?

  • Propagates the site.github namespace with repository metadata
  • Setting site variables :
    • site.title
    • site.description
    • site.url
    • site.baseurl
  • Accessing the metadata - duh.
  • Generating edittable links.

Additional Reading

  • If you’re recieving incorrect/missing data, you may need to perform a Github API authentication.
  • Go through this README for more details on the topic.
  • This page highlights all the feilds you can access with github-metadata.

Example MetaData

  • Host Name : github.com
  • URL : https://github.com/pages/th3rdparty/th3rdparty.github.io
  • BaseURL : /pages/th3rdparty/th3rdparty.github.io
  • Archived : false

  • Contributors :

    • alshedivat

    • samfearn

    • monkeywithacupcake

    • adunning

    • g-oikonomou

    • th3rdparty

    • Jongwoo-Shim

    • mvdoc

    • Mayankm96

    • swabhs

    • jasongfleischer

    • krrish94

    • mpmdean

    • kakodkar

    • sahirbhatnagar

    • shpark

    • tresoldi

    • yoonholee

    • jkmacc-LANL