This is a parser to create a microblog using Render Engine. This is based on the Blog Custom Collection.

This follows the guidance used by Micro.blog which is to be a post with no title. Slugs by default are the slugified datetime string in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.

This also create an RSS feed that you can use to syndicate your microblog posts to other services.

Your content is expected to use render engine's MarkdownPageParser or a derivative which is markdown with frontmatter. A date field is the only required metadata for the page object.

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date: 2023-01-01 12:00:00
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Hello **World**! 

Install using pypi. If you haven't already, install render-engine

pip install render-engine render-engine-microblog

In your render_engine config file import the MicroBlog collection class.

from render_engine import Site
from render_engine_microblog import MicroBlog

Create your collection like you would a blog. You will need to pass a content_path.

site = Site()
@site.collection
class MicroBlog(MicroBlog):
    content_path = "content/microblog"