#!/usr/bin/env python3
# should this operate on the same basic files as the rss script?
import sys
import re
# we expect the arguments to be filepaths to each blog post
def print_usage():
print("\nusage: python mkblogindex.py POSTS\n")
print("\n")
print("\t\tPOSTS\tfilepaths of blog posts")
# check args for at least one file path
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print_usage()
sys.exit(1)
# posts are arguments from index 1 onwards
posts = sys.argv[1:]
dir_pattern = re.compile("(.+)\/(\d{4}\/\d+\/\d+\/.+\.html)")
path_pattern = re.compile("(.+)\/(\d{4})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(.+).html")
title_pattern = re.compile("
(.+)
")
posts.reverse()
links = []
# for each file we want to output an tag with a relative href to the site root
for path in posts:
m = re.match(path_pattern, path)
if not m:
# path/to/file.ext -> file
title = path.split('/')[-1].split(".")[0]
date = f'0000-00-00'
url = path.split("/")[-1]
else:
year = m.group(2)
month = m.group(3).rjust(2, '0')
day = m.group(4).rjust(2, '0')
date = f'{year}-{month}-{day}'
title = ""
with open(path) as f:
for line in f:
if title_pattern.match(line):
title = re.sub(title_pattern, r'\1', line).strip()
break
# clean leading directories to get the relative path we'll use for the link
url = re.sub(dir_pattern, r"\2", path)
url = f"blog/{url}"
item = (date, f'{date}{title}')
links.append(item)
# make sure we're properly ordered in reverse date order lol
links = sorted(links, key=lambda x: x[0])
links.reverse()
for l in links:
print(l[1])