Python Reverse Sluggify
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In order to make an auto title plugin for markata I needed to come up with a way to reverse the slug of a post to create a title for one that does not...

Date: January 20, 2022

In order to make an auto title plugin for markata I needed to come up with a way to reverse the slug of a post to create a title for one that does not explicitly have a title.

NOTE slugs
│ [code]
│    a slug is generally all lowercase and free of spaces, and is a way to
│ 
│ make website routes (urls)

Here I have a path available that gives me the articles path, ex. python-reverse-sluggify.md. An easy way to get rid of the file extension, is to pass it into pathlib.Path and ask for the stem, which returns python-reverse-sluggify. Then from There I chose to replace - and _ with a space.

[code]
  article["title"] = (
      Path(article["path"]).stem.replace("-", " ").replace("_", " ").title()
  )

To turn this into a markata plugin I put it into a pre_render hook.

[code]
  from pathlib import Path

  from markata.hookspec import hook_impl, register_attr


  @hook_impl
  @register_attr("articles")
  def pre_render(markata) -> None:
      for article in markata.filter('title==""'):
          article["title"] = (
              Path(article["path"]).stem.replace("-", " ").replace("_", " ").title()
          )