I am looking for a plugin, or perhaps to make a plugin, that takes all links in a page/post and creates a list of them at the bottom of the page (or anywhere you like…).
I have this working already in javascript, but realised it could probably be done at build time.
This is an example of what I have at the moment:
It currently only shows up in the @print rule in my CSS, so the <sup> and <ol> are usually hidden with CSS. The idea being that if you print, you can still see the URLs that were in the post.
Is there anything around like this, before I go down the rabbit hole of making a plugin? Do you think it is even doable?
Ah interesting idea. I haven’t come across this before and not in jekyll.
You could take your logic that works in JS and turn it into a node script that you call with input data and then print the result.
e.g.
$ node links.js page.md
Links:
1. A
2. B
Then you can write a Jekyll plugin in ruby that does a shell command similar to the command above. I believe backticks are the way to do this in ruby.
Then you can append the result to the contents of the page.
Or for a cleaner approach in the plugin, you could set the result as a value on the page object. Similar to if you had set the links list as a field in metadata.
Then in a layout file you can do:
---
---
<body>
{{ content }}
{{ printable_links }}
</body>
