export.py

import os
import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def get_metadata(f):
    with open(f, 'rb') as h:
        html_doc = h.read()
        soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
        title = str(soup.find("title")).replace("<title>", "").replace("</title>", "")
        date = soup.find("meta",  property="created")
        return title, date

b = sys.argv[1] # base
entries = [f for f in os.listdir(b) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(b, f))]
# entries.sort(key=lambda x: os.stat(os.path.join(b, x)).st_mtime)

entries.remove('index.html')
entries.remove('.DS_Store')

with open('index.html', 'w') as index:
    head = open(b + '/source/head.html', 'r')
    index.write(head.read())
    head.close()

    for entry in entries:
        title, date = get_metadata(entry)
        new_enteires = "<a href='" + entry + "'>" + title + "</a>"
        print(date)
        index.write(new_enteires)
        index.write("<br>")

    tail = open(b + '/source/tail.html', 'r')
    index.write(tail.read())
    tail.close()