Truncate the description value to 100 words (#492)

Merge pull request 492

docs/advanced-usage.md

@@ -80,6 +80,27 @@ You can set it the same way as the other author properties. For example, you can
     url: https://example.com/
   ```
 
+### Customizing description length
+
+By default, the description is limited to the first 100 words of the full content.
+
+You can adjust this limit at the page level, by using the `seo_description_max_words` page property:
+
+```yml
+  seo_description_max_words: 200
+```
+
+You can also set a default site-wide value for all pages using [Front Matter defaults](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/front-matter-defaults/) in your `_config.yml` file:
+
+```yml
+defaults:
+  - scope:
+      path: ""
+    values:
+      seo_description_max_words: 200
+```
+
+
 ### Customizing JSON-LD output
 
 The following options can be set for any particular page. While the default options are meant to serve most users in the most common circumstances, there may be situations where more precise control is necessary.

lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb

@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ def name
 
       def description
         @description ||= begin
-          format_string(page["description"] || page["excerpt"]) || site_description
+          value = format_string(page["description"] || page["excerpt"]) || site_description
+          snippet(value, description_max_words)
         end
       end
 
@@ -175,6 +176,10 @@ def canonical_url
         end
       end
 
+      def description_max_words
+        @description_max_words ||= page["seo_description_max_words"] || 100
+      end
+
       private
 
       def filters
@@ -217,6 +222,13 @@ def format_string(string)
         string unless string.empty?
       end
 
+      def snippet(string, max_words)
+        return string if string.nil?
+
+        result = string.split(%r!\s+!, max_words + 1)[0...max_words].join(" ")
+        result.length < string.length ? result.concat("…") : result
+      end
+
       def seo_name
         @seo_name ||= format_string(page_seo["name"]) if page_seo["name"]
       end

spec/jekyll_seo_tag/drop_spec.rb

@@ -233,6 +233,24 @@
           expect(subject.description).to be_nil
         end
       end
+
+      context "truncation" do
+        context "without seo_description_max_words" do
+          let(:page_meta) { { "description" => "word " * 150 } }
+
+          it "truncates the description to the first 200 words" do
+            expect(subject.description).to eql(("word " * 100).chop.concat("…"))
+          end
+        end
+
+        context "with an explicit seo_description_max_words property" do
+          let(:page_meta) { { "description" => "For a long time, I went to bed early", "seo_description_max_words" => 6 } }
+
+          it "truncates the description to the configured words count" do
+            expect(subject.description).to eql("For a long time, I went…")
+          end
+        end
+      end
     end
 
     context "author" do

spec/jekyll_seo_tag_integration_spec.rb

@@ -350,6 +350,23 @@
       it "removes null values from JSON-LD" do
         expect(output).to_not match(%r!:null!)
       end
+
+      context "description" do
+        context "with page.seo_description_max_words" do
+          let(:meta) do
+            {
+              "title"                     => "post",
+              "description"               => "For a long time, I went to bed early",
+              "image"                     => "/img.png",
+              "seo_description_max_words" => 6,
+            }
+          end
+
+          it "truncates the description" do
+            expect(json_data["description"]).to eql("For a long time, I went…")
+          end
+        end
+      end
     end
   end