Get the Excerpt from a markdown file (like in jekyll or *smith)
npm install excerpt-html
parses a given html text for a good excerpt.
``
$ npm i excerpt-html --save
` Hello worldJavaScript`
var htmlCode = '
var excerptHtml = require('excerpt-html');
var excerpt = excerptHtml(htmlCode);
It will either use the first found paragraph or everything up to a
You can specify a few options that modify the way the excerpt is parsed:
` JavaScript`
excerptHtml(htmlCode, {
moreRegExp: /\s/i, // Search for the slug
stripTags: true, // Set to false to get html code
pruneLength: 140, // Amount of characters that the excerpt should contain
pruneString: '…', // Character that will be added to the pruned string
pruneSeparator: ' ', // Separator to be used to separate words
})
Note: pruneLength and prunestring only work when stripTags is set to true (default).
To make this project we detached the code of metalsmith-better-excerpts from metalsmith`.