Tarbell

Tarbell makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease.

Tarbell makes use of familiar, flexible tools to take the magic (and frustration) out of publishing to the web. Google spreadsheets handle content management, so changes to your stories are easy to make without touching a line of code. Step-by-step prompts help you set up and configure your project, so that publishing it is a breeze.

New here? Read the Tarbell tutorial or install and configure Tarbell to get started.

Need help? File a ticket tagged “support” in Github.

Tarbell is named after Ida Tarbell, a distinguished muckraking journalist whose 1904 The History of the Standard Oil Company is a masterpiece of investigative reporting. Read more about her on Wikipedia.

Requirements

Tarbell requires Python 2.7 and Git (v1.5.2+). Tarbell does not currently support Python 3.

Tarbell does not work on Windows machines.

Anatomy of a Tarbell project

Tarbell projects are made up of four pieces:

  • The core Tarbell library, installed when you run pip install tarbell
  • A Tarbell blueprint directory
  • Your project template files
  • A Google spreadsheet (optional)

Using Tarbell