astro-paper can also be headless CMS

[xiyuvi]

I want to create a static JSON data from the article list and Markdown document, which can be used by other external programs。 I hope astro can support this feature, so that astro can play the role of headless CMS. Thank you very much

[mattppal]

This would actually be quite helpful for me as well— I assume you're trying to import into something like Ghost? I spent a little while playing around with it, but it seems quite complex.

We'd need a way to export the markdown files to mobiledoc in that case...

[satnaing]

Sounds interesting. I've never used (and imagined to do) something like this. I mean I'm unfamiliar with this kind of stuff. Thus, can you please explain a bit more? Like

• the need to export JSON data extracted from blog contents?
• how about the contents inside the config file?
• etc

[mattppal]

@satnaing I spent sometime playing with Ghost (here's a useful repo and the astro docs)

The issue comes with supplying the Ghost API with content— it seems particularly difficult to accomplish with how AstroPaper is structured.

I also came across TS Ghost, which might be interesting.

[xiyuvi]

Sounds interesting. I've never used (and imagined to do) something like this. I mean I'm unfamiliar with this kind of stuff. Thus, can you please explain a bit more? Like

• the need to export JSON data extracted from blog contents?
• how about the contents inside the config file?
• etc

Like this, perhaps you have heard of Hexo, which is a static blog generator. Hexo has a plugin called "Hexo generator restful", which can generate JSON format APIs from MD documents for third-party calls.

https://github.com/yscoder/hexo-generator-restful

https://xiyu.pro/api/posts.json