random-link.js

A fun little script to add a random link to your site.

It was built with the idea of having a big list of blogs/websites, and then this script picking out a random link and showing it on the page.

Usage

First of all, you need your website data in a json file. (Refer to example-data.json for an example list)

Essentially, it's an array of JSON objects that have both a title and a url.

It looks something like this:

[
	{
		"title": "Example Blog",
		"url": "https://blog.com"
	}
]

Then you'll need to make sure that the random-link.js script is loaded, adding defer so that it is executed once the page has finished loading:

<script src="random-link" defer></script>

Then add any HTML element with the class random-link. The script will then build a simple link element and add it as a child element:

<h3>Random Website</h3>
<p class="random-link" data-file="data.json"></p>

You will, of course, need to provide the location of the blogroll JSON data file. This should be provided via a data-file attribute.

And if you want to provide your own title for the link, you can use the data-custom-title attribute like so:

<h3>Random Website</h3>
<p class="random-link" data-custom-title="Random Website" data-file="data.json"></p>