metatext.js

Node port of this lightweight Jekyll-inspired metadata parser written in Ruby.

metatext.js parses files that contain YAML data at the start of the file. It returns a POJO version of the data, and a raw string containing the content from the file.

Getting started

npm install metatext.js

var metatext = require("metatext");

Usage

Given the example files in this repo, let's look at how you would use metatext.js.

cat example/content.md

---
foo: hello
bar: world
---
this is some plain ol' text

Oh cool, this file has some text content, but also has some YAML data at the top of the file. Let's make that data useful.

cat example/index.js

var metatext = require("metatext");
 
metatext("example/content.md", function(data, content) {
  console.log("The parsed YAML data is:\n", data);
  console.log("The content from the file is:\n", content);
});

Require metatext, and pass a string of the file location and a callback function. The callback should accept two parameters — the first being the data parsed from the YAML, and the second is a string parsed from the content after the YAML data.

node example/index.js

The parsed YAML data is:
 { foo: 'hello', bar: 'world' }
The content from the file is:
this is some plain ol' text

That's it!

Example contents inspired by the original.