layout: post title: a post with github metadata date: 2020-09-28 21:01:00 description: a quick run down on accessing github metadata. categories: sample-posts external-services — <!– — A sample blog page that demonstrates the accessing of github meta data.

What does Github-MetaData do?

• Propagates the site.github namespace with repository metadata
• Setting site variables :
  • site.title
  • site.description
  • site.url
  • site.baseurl
• Accessing the metadata - duh.
• Generating edittable links.

Additional Reading

• If you’re recieving incorrect/missing data, you may need to perform a Github API authentication.
• Go through this README for more details on the topic.
• This page highlights all the feilds you can access with github-metadata.
  

Example MetaData

• Host Name :
• URL :
• BaseURL :
• Archived :
• Contributors :

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