Jekyll - generating JSON files alongside the HTML files

Question

I\'d like to make Jekyll create an HTML file and a JSON file for each page and post. This is to offer a JSON API of my Jekyll blog - e.g. a post can be accessed either at

Answer 1

There are two ways you can accomplish this, depending on your needs. If you want to use a layout to accomplish the task, then you want to use a Generator. You would loop through each page of your site and generate a new .json version of the page. You could optionally make which pages get generated conditional upon the site.config or the presence of a variable in the YAML front matter of the pages. Jekyll uses a generator to handle slicing blog posts up into indices with a given number of posts per page.

The second way is to use a Converter (same link, scroll down). The converter will allow you to execute arbitrary code on your content to translate it to a different format. For an example of how this works, check out the markdown converter that comes with Jekyll.

I think this is a cool idea!