Gemican

Gemican is a static Gemini capsule generator, written in Python.

It is based on the static site generator, Pelican.

Highlights include:

Write your content directly with your editor of choice in Gemtext or Markdown formats
Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate your site
Easy to interface with distributed version control systems and web hooks
Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Ready to get started? Check out the Quickstart guide.

Features

Gemican’s feature highlights include:

Articles (e.g., blog posts) and pages (e.g., "About", "Projects", "Contact")
Integration with external services
Site themes (created using Jinja2)
Publication of articles in multiple languages
Generation of Atom and RSS feeds
Import existing content from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feeds
Fast rebuild times thanks to content caching and selective output writing
Extensible via plugins

Why the name "Gemican"?

"Gemican" is an anagram of *camegin*, which means nothing in any language.

Only joking - Gemican is based on the Pelican static site generator, and took its name from that.

Source code

You can access the source code at:

How to get help, contribute, or provide feedback

See our feedback and contribution submission guidelines.

Documentation