# a post with github metadata

September 28, 2020

[** 2020](https://alextisyoung.com/blog/2020) · [** metadata](https://alextisyoung.com/blog/tag/metadata) · [** sample-posts](https://alextisyoung.com/blog/category/sample-posts) [** external-services](https://alextisyoung.com/blog/category/external-services)

A sample blog page that demonstrates the accessing of github meta data.

## What does Github-MetaData do?

- Propagates the site.github namespace with repository metadata

- Setting site variables :
  - site.title
  - site.description
  - site.url
  - site.baseurl

- Accessing the metadata - duh.

- Generating edittable links.

## Additional Reading

- If you’re recieving incorrect/missing data, you may need to perform a Github API[authentication](https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata/blob/master/docs/authentication.md).

- Go through this [README](https://jekyll.github.io/github-metadata/) for more details on the topic.

- [This page](https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata/blob/master/docs/site.github.md) highlights all the feilds you can access with github-metadata.

## Example MetaData

- Host Name :

- URL :

- BaseURL :

- Archived :

- Contributors :

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Source: [a post with github metadata | Alexander Strudwick Young](https://alextisyoung.com/blog/2020/github-metadata/)