wagtail-webstories

AMP web story support for Wagtail

Installation

Install with pip:

pip install wagtail-webstories

Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'wagtail_webstories',
    # ...
]

Define a model that extends wagtail_webstories.models.BaseWebStoryPage:

from wagtail_webstories.models import BaseWebStoryPage

class StoryPage(BaseWebStoryPage):
    pass

Create a corresponding template that extends wagtail_webstories/base_web_story_page.html:

{% extends "wagtail_webstories/base_web_story_page.html" %}

Importing

To enable importing of web stories, define a setting WAGTAIL_WEBSTORIES_IMPORT_MODEL pointing to the page model to use:

WAGTAIL_WEBSTORIES_IMPORT_MODEL = 'myapp.StoryPage'

Image importing

By default, image references within imported stories are left at their original URLs. BaseWebStoryPage provides a method import_images() to fetch all referenced images and import them into the Wagtail image library, de-duplicating if they already exist. It is recommended that you call this from a post_save signal handler:

# myapp/signals.py

from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver

from .models import StoryPage


@receiver(post_save, sender=StoryPage)
def import_story_images(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    changed = instance.import_images()
    if changed:
        instance.save()


# myapp/apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class MyappConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'myapp'

    def ready(self):
        import myapp.signals  # noqa


# myapp/__init__.py

default_app_config = 'myapp.apps.MyappConfig'

Since importing images can be a time-consuming process, you may wish to offload the call to import_images to a background task using Celery or similar, to avoid this blocking a web server thread.

To customise the creation of new images (e.g. to assign imported images to a particular collection, or to populate additional metadata fields on a custom image model), override the story page model's _create_image method:

class StoryPage(BaseWebStoryPage):

    def _create_image(self, file, title=None):
        image = super()._create_image(file, title=title)
        image.copyright = "All rights reserved"
        return image

Video importing

If you have wagtailmedia installed, you can similarly import videos into the local media library by calling import_videos(). The signal handler above then becomes:

# myapp/signals.py

@receiver(post_save, sender=StoryPage)
def import_story_images(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    images_changed = instance.import_images()
    videos_changed = instance.import_videos()
    if images_changed or videos_changed:
        instance.save()

Linking and embedding

To embed a web story into a regular (non-AMP) StreamField-based page, include the wagtail_webstories.blocks.StoryEmbedBlock block type in your StreamField definition:

from wagtail_webstories.blocks import StoryEmbedBlock

class BlogPage(Page):
    body = StreamField([
        ('heading', blocks.CharBlock()),
        ('paragraph', blocks.RichTextBlock()),
        ('story_embed', StoryEmbedBlock(target_model=StoryPage)),
    ])

The target_model argument is optional - by default, any page type inheriting from BaseWebStoryPage can be chosen. The block will render on the front-end template (when using {% include_block %}) as an <amp-story-player> element; your template should include the necessary scripts for rendering this, along with a CSS rule to specify appropriate dimensions:

    <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/amp-story-player-v0.js"></script>
    <link href="https://cdn.ampproject.org/amp-story-player-v0.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <style>
        amp-story-player { width: 360px; height: 600px; }
    </style>

To include a link to a story rather than embedding it, wagtail_webstories.blocks.StoryChooserBlock can be used in place of StoryEmbedBlock. The default template wagtail_webstories/blocks/story_poster_link.html outputs a 'card' rendering of the story using the story's poster image, to be used with the following CSS:

    .webstory-poster {
        display: block; width: 300px; height: 400px; border-radius: 15px; background-size: cover; position: relative;
    }
    .webstory-poster .webstory-info {
        position: absolute; bottom: 0; width: 100%; background-color: #ccc; color: black; border-bottom-left-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px;
    }
    .webstory-poster .title {
        font-size: 1.5em; padding: 10px;
    }
    .webstory-poster .publisher {
        padding: 0 10px 20px 10px;
    }
    .webstory-poster .publisher img {
        vertical-align: middle;
    }

The templates wagtail_webstories/blocks/story_poster_link.html and wagtail_webstories/blocks/story_embed_block.html expect a single variable page containing the story page instance, so these can also be used outside of StreamField:

# models.py
class StoryIndexPage(Page):
    def get_context(self, request):
        context = super().get_context(request)
        context['stories'] = StoryPage.objects.child_of(self).live().order_by('-first_published_at')
        return context

{# story_index_page.html #}
{% for story in stories %}
    {% include "wagtail_webstories/blocks/story_poster_link.html" with page=story %}
{% endfor %}