I have changed the Travis script to install a Pandoc binary (1.12.3, thanks to Hadley Wickham and RStudio). Travis now takes less than 30 seconds to build a VM with a recent Pandoc, so that the overall process of converting markdown to HTML and pushing to Github Pages can be done in 2-5 minutes (installing Ruby gems for Jekyll is now the slowest part). Example .travis.yml at https://github.com/mfenner/jekyll-travis

Best, Martin

Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2014 01:11:46 UTC+1 schrieb Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin:

среда, 26 февраля 2014 г., 23:19:18 UTC-8 пользователь Martin Fenner написал:

Dear list,

I am currently using pandoc locally on my computer to convert md to html files to be hosted by Github Pages - for a book on Open Science hosted at http://book.openingscience.org. I would like to do the same with a Pandoc webservice that ideally is triggered every time a markdown file changes or every 24 hours. I'm pretty sure someone has done this before. Can you provide some pointers and/or feedback?

Have you seen http://www.docverter.com/api ?

For markdown->html, it's a sufficietly thin wrapper around pandoc.

Not sure how regularly it's updated, but currently has pandoc 1.12.0.2: https://github.com/Docverter/docverter/blob/master/.vendor_urls 

Travis still sounds like a more natural approach for reacting to commits and converting many files.