MetaYAMLer

MetaYAMLer is a small app which helps with the building of image libraries in a flat file CMS, like Grav. When you point it at a folder full of JPG, PNG or GIF files, it'll load them in and then let you set some alt_text (if needed) and a description for automatically placing into the right .meta.yaml file alongside the image.

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I wanted to make the program as efficient as possible, and used it to build all the text for the galleries on this webpage. The first gallery took about an hour to do by hand. I wrote MetaYAMLer in the space of about 30 minutes, and the other six galleries took less than an hour to finish off, combined. So I know it's nicely efficient. I hope you find it as useful as I did!

Instructions

  1. Download the ZIP file below
  2. Open the ZIP and copy the MetaYAMLer\bin\Relese\MetaYAMLer.exe somewhere
  3. Open the MetaYAMLer.exe file
  4. Type (or paste) your gallery folder's name into the Folder box
  5. Start editing.
  6. Use the < and > buttons to step through the images in the gallery. The changes will be saved when you move off the image, no need to click "Save".
  7. Click "Save" if you want to just see the changes on the site without moving off the image.
  8. Close the app with the Close button when you're done.

Get it here:

MetaYAMLer;

  • Note - The ZIP contains the entire VS2019 project, not just the compiled .exe, so if you want to adjust the code to cope with more image types, or if you want to just make a change for the sake of it, please do. If you want to poke fun at my crappy coding skills, that's absolutely fine too, just email none@none.com and I'll get to your complaint in due course :)

  • Note - Don't use ""'s in your alt_text or description. As they tend to get loaded into HTML attributes, any double-quotes would annoy the quotation marks around the string. Your page will have a bug and refuse to render.