Common repository information, such as the project name and description, is available to Jekyll sites hosted on GitHub Enterprise Pages.

Usage

Repository metadata is exposed to your Jekyll site's configuration in the site.github namespace.

Simply, reference any of the below keys as you would any other site configuration value present in your _config.yml file, prefacing the key with site.github.

For example, to list a project's name, you might write something like The project is called {{ site.github.project_title }} or to list an organization's open source repositories, you might use the following:

{% for repository in site.github.public_repositories %}
  * [{{ repository.name }}]({{ repository.html_url }})
{% endfor %}

Available repository metadata

Note: For the latest dependency versions see "GitHub Pages Dependencies Versions."

The following sample information is exposed to Jekyll templates in the site.github namespace:

{
    "versions": {
        "jekyll": <version>,
        "kramdown": <version>,
        "liquid": <version>,
        "maruku": <version>,
        "rdiscount": <version>,
        "redcarpet": <version>,
        "RedCloth": <version>,
        "jemoji": <version>,
        "jekyll-mentions": <version>,
        "jekyll-redirect-from": <version>,
        "jekyll-sitemap": <version>,
        "github-pages": <version>,
        "ruby": <version>"
    },
    "hostname": "github.com",
    "pages_hostname": "github.io",
    "api_url": "https://api.github.com",
    "environment": "dotcom",
    "public_repositories": [ Repository Objects ],
    "organization_members": [ User Objects ],
    "build_revision": "cbd866ebf142088896cbe71422b949de7f864bce",
    "project_title": "metadata-example",
    "project_tagline": "A GitHub Pages site to showcase repository metadata",
    "owner_name": "github",
    "owner_url": "https://github.com/github",
    "owner_gravatar_url": "https://github.com/github.png",
    "repository_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example",
    "repository_nwo": "github/metadata-example",
    "repository_name": "metadata-example",
    "zip_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example/zipball/gh-pages",
    "tar_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example/tarball/gh-pages",
    "clone_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example.git",
    "releases_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example/releases",
    "issues_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example/issues",
    "wiki_url": "https://github.com/github/metadata-example/wiki",
    "language": null,
    "is_user_page": false,
    "is_project_page": true,
    "show_downloads": true,
    "url": "http://username.github.io/metadata-example", // (or the CNAME)
    "contributors": [ User Objects ]
}

For more information on the contents of the repository and user objects, see these API endpoints:

The above is an example of site.github's typical contents.