share-menu

A complete and simple to use share menu.

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A complete and simple to use share menu that uses Web Share API when possible, with a fallback to a nice share menu that tries to emulate the experience of the native one.

Features

• Incredibly simple to use. Just set the title, text, url and via properties and call the share() method to make the magic happen.
• Highly customizable. It offers a great material design UI by default, but it is also designed to be as much customizable as possible through CSS custom properties and shadow parts.
• Compatible with any major browser. The Web Share API is still quite young, but the fallback dialog works on any browser supporting Custom Elements (directly or through a polyfill). Unlike the native share menu, the fallback will also work on desktop browsers and insecure contexts, so you will be able to offer a much more coherent experience to your users.

Installation

npm i share-menu
# or
yarn add share-menu

Without npm/yarn

If you don't use npm or yarn, an IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression) version of the element is also provided. The IIFE version of the element can also be used if you're still on Bower (e.g. if you're using Polymer < 3). To use it, just use the unpkg CDN:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/share-menu/social-icons.iife.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/share-menu/share-menu.iife.min.js"></script>

Try it now!

Try copy-pasting this code on your browser's console in any website:

var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="module";a.textContent="import'https://unpkg.com/share-menu/share-menu.min.js';var a=document.createElement('share-menu');document.body.appendChild(a),a.share()";document.head.appendChild(a);

...or the IIFE version

var a=document.createElement("script");a.src="https://unpkg.com/share-menu/share-menu.iife.min.js";a.onload=()=>{var c=document.createElement("share-menu");document.body.appendChild(c);c.share()};var b=document.createElement("script");b.src="https://unpkg.com/share-menu/social-icons.iife.min.js";b.onload=()=>document.head.appendChild(a);document.head.appendChild(b);

Note: these scripts will not work if the website implements a strict CSP (Content Security Policy). For example, these scripts won't work on GitHub.

Usage

Basic usage

<share-menu id="shareMenu" title="Ohai!" text="Just a test" url="https://www.example.com/"></share-menu>

<button onclick="shareMenu.share()">Share!</button>

All the properties set

<share-menu
  title="Awesome!"
  text="More customized share menu"
  url="https://www.example.com/"
  via="Dabolus"
  dialog-title="Share now!"
  is-image="auto"
  no-backdrop>
</share-menu>

Supported socials (in the fallback dialog)

Here you can see the list of the supported socials, as well as the limitations that each one gives:

• Baidu - URL and title only
• Blogger
• Buffer - URL and title only
• Copy to clipboard
• Delicious - URL and title only
• Digg - URL and title only
• Douban - URL and title only
• Email
• Evernote - URL only
• Facebook - URL only if not using Facebook JS SDK
• FlipBoard - URL and title only
• Google+ - URL only
• Instapaper
• Line - URL only
• LinkedIn
• LiveJournal
• Myspace
• Odnoklassniki (OK.ru) - URL and title only
• Pinterest - Will only be visible if the URL is an image. Look for the isImage parameter on the API docs for more info
• Pocket - URL only
• Print - Only prints the page at the given URL
• QZone - URL only
• Reddit - Shares an URL if there is no text provided, otherwise a text with the URL appended at the end will be shared.
• RenRen - Currently disabled because it does not seem to work
• Skype - URL only
• SMS
• StumbleUpon - URL and title only
• Telegram
• Translate - Only translates the page at the given URL
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Viber
• VKontakte - URL only
• Weibo
• WhatsApp
• WordPress
• Xing - URL only
• Yahoo

The via parameter will only be used by Delicious, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Icons

The icons used by the component are just simple SVGs, so you can use them anywhere in your app simply by importing social-icons.js located in this package.

Styling

The following custom properties and shadow parts are available for styling:

Links

• Documentation
• Online Demo
• View on NPM
• View on GitHub
• GitHub Homepage
• Issue tracker
• License

Compatibility