CJFWeatherhead/share-url

:link: Generates Social Sharing Url Strings

share-url

Generates social sharing urls without downloading its third party scripts. Adaptable to any UI.

Supported: Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Whatsapp, Pinterest, Reddit, Linkedin, e-mail.

Demo

https://noeldelgado.github.io/share-url/

Dependencies

None

Installation

NPM

npm i share-url --save

Or as a <script> tag from a CDN as ShareUrl:

Unkpkg CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/share-url"></script>

jsDelivr CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/share-url"></script>

Usage Example

// jsx
<a href={ShareUrl.facebook({ u: 'https://google.com' }}>
  Share on Facebook
</a>

// js
document.querySelector('a').href = ShareUrl.facebook({ u: 'https://google.com' });

facebook

Source https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}

ShareUrl.facebook({
  u: 'http://google.com',
});
// => 'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com'

whatsapp

Source https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text={text}

ShareUrl.whatsapp({
  text: 'Check out http://google.com',
});
// => 'https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com'

telegram

Source https://t.me/share/url?url={url}&text={text}

ShareUrl.telegram({
  url: 'https://google.com',
  text: 'Check out',
});
// => https://t.me/share/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&text=Check%20out

twitter

Source https://twitter.com/share?text={text}&url={url}

ShareUrl.twitter({
  text: 'custom share text',
  in_reply_to: '471716611724812288',
  url: 'https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button',
  hashtags: 'example,demo',
  via: 'twitterdev',
  related: 'twitterapi,twitter',
});
// => 'https://twitter.com/share?text=custom%20share%20text&in_reply_to=471716611724812288&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fweb%2Ftweet-button&hashtags=example%2Cdemo&via=twitterdev&related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter'

pinterest

Source https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={url}

ShareUrl.pinterest({
  url: 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/6851755809/',
  media: 'http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6851755809_df5b2051c9_z.jpg',
  description: 'Next Stop Pinterest',
});
// => 'https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fkentbrew%2F6851755809%2F&media=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm8.staticflickr.com%2F7027%2F6851755809_df5b2051c9_z.jpg&description=Next%20Stop%20Pinterest'

reddit

Source http://www.reddit.com/submit?url={url}

ShareUrl.reddit({
  url: '//www.reddit.com/buttons',
  title: 'Buttons!',
});
// => 'http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fbuttons&title=Buttons!'

linkedin

Source https://linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}

ShareUrl.linkedin({
  url: 'http://developer.linkedin.com',
});
// => 'https://linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.linkedin.com'

email

Source mailto:{to}?subject={subject}&body={body}

ShareUrl.email({
  to: 'nowhere@mozilla.org',
  cc: 'nobody@mozilla.org',
  subject: 'This is the subject',
  body: 'This is the body - https://developer.mozilla.org/',
});
// => 'mailto:nowhere@mozilla.org?cc=nobody%40mozilla.org&subject=This%20is%20the%20subject&body=This%20is%20the%20body%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.mozilla.org%2F'

License

MIT © Noel Delgado