I am wondering if anyone has any experience creating a curated newsfeed page in hugo.
What I mean by this is that I want to have a single page that will contain a curated set of links to websites/content/pages that are external to my site.
As an example, let’s say I have a page for “Innovations in Fried Chicken”. And I want this page to house 7 links to posts made on other websites (not my own) talking about fried chicken. The links are all hand-selected by me (not RSS feeds) and are only meant to be manually updated.
But I want to present it in a prettier way than just a single page with:
Perhaps make each of the links look like blog entries? Pulling the featured image from those pages and their page titles (sort of like how social media/chat programs pull previews)
just to throw some ideas in the air to see what sticks:
I think a build script may be the only way to go in order for you to throw links at and let it get images and descriptions onto a json file like @ju52 suggested.
Hugo doesn’t have a way to pull content from other websites at the moment. Maybe the new version 0.90 with the resources.GET allows you to pull the html and fetch the opengraph image tag ?
i’d download any thumbnails to make sure it always builds nicely
How were you thinking about adding links to the list?
And now that I think of it this might be something useful for my blog as well
This really helped. Got it up and running, just need to make minor tweaks to the shortcode to have it look pretty with the theme I’m running. But I can take it over from here.
