reading_time is not supported in postsFields

[JavowiecPL]

It seems that reading_time is not supported in postsFields.

I've defined:

postsFields: ['title', 'url', 'excerpt', 'custom_excerpt', 'published_at', 'feature_image', 'reading_time'],

and inside template function the ${post.reading_time} outputs undefined.

Click to see the whole template function definition

template: function (post) {
	var postCard = `<article class="post-card post">`;
	if (post.feature_image) {
		postCard += `<a class="post-card-image-link" href="${post.url}">`;
		postCard += `<img class="post-card-image" src="${post.feature_image}" alt="${post.title}" loading="lazy"/>`;
		postCard += `</a>`;
	}
	postCard += `<div class="post-card-content">`;
	postCard += `<a class="post-card-content-link" href="${post.url}">`;
	postCard += `<header class="post-card-header">`;
	if (post.tags.length > 0) {
		postCard += `<div class="post-card-primary-tag">#${post.tags[0].name}</div>`;
	}
	postCard += `<h2 class="post-card-title">${post.title}</h2>`;
	postCard += `</header>`;
	postCard += `<section class="post-card-excerpt">`;
	postCard += `<p>${post.excerpt}</p>`;
	postCard += `</section>`;
	postCard += `</a>`;
	postCard += `<footer class="post-card-meta">`;
	postCard += `<ul class="author-list">`;
	postCard += `<li class="author-list-item">`;
	if (post.authors.length > 0 && post.authors[0].profile_image) {
		postCard += `<a href="${post.authors[0].url}" class="static-avatar">`;
		postCard += `<img class="author-profile-image" src="${post.authors[0].profile_image}" alt="${post.authors[0].name}"/>`;
		postCard += `</a>`;
	}
	postCard += `</li>`;
	postCard += `</ul>`;
	postCard += `<div class="post-card-byline-content">`;
	if (post.authors.length > 0) {
		postCard += `<span>`;
		postCard += `<a href="${post.authors[0].url}">${post.authors[0].name}</a>`;
		postCard += `</span>`;
	}
	postCard += `<span class="post-card-byline-date">`;
	postCard += `<time>${post.published_at}</time>`;
	postCard += `<span class="bull">&bull;</span>`;
	postCard += `${post.reading_time}`;
	postCard += `</span>`;
	postCard += `</div>`;
	postCard += `</footer>`;
	postCard += `</div>`;
	postCard += `</article>`;
	return postCard;
}

When I execute curl command:

curl "http://localhost:2368/ghost/api/v3/content/posts/{id}/?key={key}&include=tags,authors" | jq

I can see that reading_time is available:

Casper theme is displaying reading_time in its post-card definition:

but when using searchinGhost I can't display it and my theme is not consistent:

Would it be possible to add support for reading_time in postsFields?

@gmfmi, thank you for all you hard work! SearchinGhost is awesome :)

[gmfmi]

Hi @JavowiecPL, curious issue! I will dig into it to understand what is going on. I hope I will get enough free time to do it by tomorrow :)

[gmfmi]

Well, basically, the issue comes from the internal Ghost API design (if you wonder, yes, it could be really improved 😃). This is a known issue, check that link to get more information.

So with the current implementation of SearchinGhost, it is not possible to simply add the field reading_time to the list to make it work.

But, good news, I need to partially rewrite the library so I will probably include this fix on the fly! The only issue is I don't know yet when I will find the time to do it...

Stay tuned 😉

[JavowiecPL]

It is not an urgent issue, take your time :grin:

Thank you for the information and your work! :+1: