---
title: "Markata list posts by year"
description: "I was looking back at my analytics page today and wondered what were my posts about back at the beginning. My blog is managed by markata so I looked at a few..."
date: 2025-05-01
published: true
tags:
  - markata
  - python
template: til
---


I was looking back at my <a href="/analytics/" class="wikilink" data-title="analytics" data-description="I&#39;ve been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of..." data-date="2025-01-22">analytics</a> page today and wondered what were my
posts about back at the beginning.  My blog is managed by <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a> so I
looked at a few ways you could pull those posts up.  Turns out it's pretty
simple to do, use the markata map with a filter.


``` python
from markata import Markata

m.map('title, slug, date', filter='date.year==2016', sort='date')
```

!!! Note
    the filter is python eval that should evaluate to a boolean, all of the
    attributes of the post are available to filter on.

### Result

``` python
[
    ('⭐ jupyterlab jupyterlab', 'jupyterlab-jupyterlab', datetime.date(2016, 12, 13)),
    ('⭐ nickhould tidy-data-python', 'nickhould-tidy-data-python', datetime.date(2016, 12, 9)),
    (
        '⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-demos',
        'mikeckennedy-write-pythonic-code-demos',
        datetime.date(2016, 11, 22)
    ),
    (
        '⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast',
        'mikeckennedy-write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast',
        datetime.date(2016, 11, 22)
    ),
    ('⭐ rajshah4 dlgroup', 'rajshah4-dlgroup', datetime.date(2016, 11, 18)),
    ('⭐ pandas-dev pandas', 'pandas-dev-pandas', datetime.date(2016, 10, 5))
]
```

You could use the `list` command as well right within your shell and the same
map and filters work.

``` bash
⬢ [devtainer-0.1.3] ❯ markata list --map title --filter='date.year==2016'
[22:35:06] 2088/2145 posts skipped                                                                       skip.py:36
           57/2145 posts not skipped                                                                     skip.py:37

⭐ pandas-dev pandas
⭐ rajshah4 dlgroup
⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast
⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-demos
⭐ nickhould tidy-data-python
⭐ jupyterlab jupyterlab
```

You could also do it with jin right inside of a markdown post using the
[jinja_md](https://markata.dev/markata/plugins/jinja-md/) plugin.

``` md
{% raw %}
{% for title, slug, date in markata.map('title, slug, date', filter='date.year==2016', sort='date') %}
* [{{title}}]({{slug}}) - {{date}}
{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}
```

!!! Note
    You do have to `jinja: true` in the frontmatter of the post.

### Result

{% for title, slug, date in markata.map('title, slug, date', filter='date.year==2016', sort='date') %}
* [{{title}}]({{slug}}) - {{date}}
{% endfor %}