Baby's First Fork
While thinking of new posts to write, I thought of a certain something that I believed I wouldn't be able to due to the fact the my articles are now converted to HTML from markdown now (instead of being written in HTML). But then I thought 'why don't I just write in the functionality myself?' So I've forked python-markdown2 and today we are going to add iframe support.
Looking at the code, it seems to be a pretty simple task. We just need to add an options to self.extras for iframes and call the function if it is passed.
But first I'll need to decide on what syntax represent an iframe, since it isn't standard with markdown. I could add on to the normal syntax for links and add it to this do_links function:
I would need to add a handler to this for iframes with a similar syntax. Where an inline image is , I could make iframes to be ?[text](frame-url).
However, since it isn't actual markdown I would rather make the syntax something completely different like \{frame-url}, this will mean that I need to make a new function instead of adding it to an existing one.
Here we will add our option (in the previous convert function) to do iframes:
And here's the code for _do_iframes:
Very simple.
Now we can add it to the bottom of this site's requirements.txt and add the iframes option to mdtohtml.
To prove that it works here's a YouTube video:
If you want to view or use this fork, you can see it here. I'll hopefully continue to maintain it for as long as this blog lasts.
Update 2019-08-27: I don't use this anymore because I've moved from Python to JS.