No variable for current url or base url

[nsrosenqvist]

From what I can gather (at least not in the docs) there is no way to access the current URL or site base URL. This prevents configuring opengraph tags and other meta correctly.

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• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Vapid Version: 0.8.6

[amiller-gh]

Mmm, this is a good feature addition. It will be especially needed if we get something like #158 or custom page slugs for collection records. How would you envision the API looking?

Side note – if pages and collection records get a more opinionated "settings" panel (mentioned at the end of #158 and in #8, we may want to add social media metadata config options on a per-page and per-post basis. This page settings proposal as not been written yet though and is probably tangential to a {{_location}} metadata addition. (FWIW, the Ghost Blog interface is great prior art for standard page settings)

[nsrosenqvist]

Personally I'd simply want the request information to be made available in a global variable, containing full request url, base url, host and scheme, or a function that allows you to retrieve the absolute url for an asset.

[srobbin]

I agree. Maybe a {{_request}} tag, which exposes some of the Koa.js request variables (e.g., host, path, origin, query).

So you could end up doing:

<meta property="og:image" content="{{_request.origin}}/images/share.png">

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