How can I get a longer automatic excerpt in Jekyll?

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Currently, I include excerpts like this:

{{ post.excerpt | strip_html }}

But this seems to give only the first paragraph. But I would like to get a fixed number of words.

Or better: I would like to define a maximum number of characters and get so many words that

the number of characters is less than the maximum
one word more would be over the maximum number of characters

Is there a way to do this with Jekyll (1.3.1)?

edit:  is not an answer! I think excerpting should work automatically and my posts should only contain markup that is absolutely necessary.

I'm not quiet sure, but I think you have to amend the Jekyll engine itself. Check out their source code on github. See line 106ff https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/lib/jekyll/excerpt.rb — Tobi, Dec 04 '13 at 16:13
I hoped I could simply use something built-in. For WordPress, there are many plugins ([summy](http://wordpress.org/plugins/summy/), [advanced excerpt](http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/), [search excerpt](http://scott.yang.id.au/code/search-excerpt/), ...). Maybe next weekend. When I write a plugin / adjust the `excerpt.rb`, I'll post it as an answer. (By the way: Hi Tobi :-) ) — Martin Thoma, Dec 04 '13 at 18:33

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 08 '16 at 07:54

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The following gives a 75 words automatic excerpt:

{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords:75 }}

edited Dec 08 '16 at 07:54

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answered Dec 09 '13 at 23:37

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 12:10

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Actually  is the answer. At least, it works well now.

Add this line to your _config.yml:

excerpt_separator: ""
Then add this to each post in your site:

Hope it will help.

answered Jan 25 '17 at 12:10

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How can I get a longer automatic excerpt in Jekyll?

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