Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces html files on the output. A picture:

   ┌──────┐   ┌───────────┐   ┌─────────────┐ **
   │ text │ + │ templates │ = │ .html files │
   └──────┘   └───────────┘   └─────────────┘

Generated site can be blog, game list, interactive demo or anything else.

Static site generators written in Python

• PubTal - Templating#SimpleTAL-based static web site generator, BSD-3

• https://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ - Generates Websites from ReST contents

• Hyde - Django based static web site generator. Code

• Blogofile - Mako-based static web site generator. Supports Git, Disqus, RSS feeds, plugins, and S3.

• Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus.

• Sphinx - Turns ReST into HTML, LaTeX, man pages, or plaintext. Created to by Python's official documentation system and has many features for making site trees, inter-document linking, and other documentation necessities (Jinja2 as default template engine).

• Tinkerer - blogging engine/static website generator powered by Sphinx.

• Poole - Static website generator based on Markdown. html2text - useful tool for conversion into Markdown.

• Mynt - Static website generator based on Markdown (Jinja2 as a template).

These are outdated, but worth mentioning:

• https://www.nthwave.net/elements/ - powerful tool for experienced web developers of year 2001, requires at least Python 2.2

Dead links for software archaeologists

• tahchee - Cheetah-based static web site generator

** ASCII diagram was drawn with Far Manager