Jekyll Plugin: JSON Generator for Collection docs

json_page_generator.rb

module Jekyll
  class JSONPage < Page
    def initialize(site, base, dir, name, content)
      @site = site
      @base = base
      @dir  = dir
      @name = name

      self.data = {}
      self.content = content

      process(@name)
    end

    def read_yaml(*)
      # Do nothing
    end

    def render_with_liquid?
      false
    end
  end

  class JSONPostGenerator < Generator
    safe true

    def generate(site)
      require 'kramdown'

      site.documents.each do |document|
        # Set the path of the JSON version
        path = "#{document.collection.label}" + document.cleaned_relative_path + ".json"
        output = document.to_liquid
        output['content'] = Kramdown::Document.new(document.content).to_html.gsub(/\n/, "")

        # Delete unnecessary metadata
        ['layout', 'output'].each { |key| output.delete(key) }


        site.pages << JSONPage.new(site, site.source, File.dirname(path), File.basename(path), output.to_json)
      end
    end
  end
end