Title: Pagegen static site generator
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Description: Pagegen is a static web site generator, it creates web sites from text files and directories. Manage your site from the command line.
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<h2>Get Pagegen</h2>
<pre>$ pip install pagegen</pre>
<p>Then checkout the <br /><a href="<sc>page_url('/quick-start')</sc>">quick start</a></p>
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Pagegen takes content found in a bunch of regular plain text files and folders and wraps them up nicely as a website. You can focus on writing content, and pagegen will do it up for web.

* Pages are text files with [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) or [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) markup
* Fast and lightweight [Mako](https://www.makotemplates.org/) templates
* Unlimited site hierarchy defined by files and directories
* Auto site rebuild for easier development
* Javascript site search
* Web friendly URLs, sitemap, RSS feed and tags
* Page content can be output from any executable/scripts
* Hooks for running custom scripts during generation
* Shortcodes support
* Minify HTML, CSS and/or Javascript
* Suitable for build pipelines and CI/CD